Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without... →
Walter Murch
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Iris Murdoch
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the... →
Joe Murray
When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.
Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is... →
People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.
Edward R. Murrow
Layer by layer art strips life bare.
Robert Musil
Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?
The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved.... →