"Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me." — Jeanne Moreau, French actress, born 1928.
"When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?" — Rita Moreno, Puerto Rican-American entertainer, born 1931
"Violent drama has been a hallmark of every great civilization. It is not the cause of the disease - it is an immunizing factor. People go to the theater to experience emotions like fear and loathing. Violent drama shows us where we come from. It makes us face our hypocrisy." — Michael Moriarty, American-Canadian actor, born 1941
"If you were to ask me to define a photograph in a few words, I would say it is a fossil of light and time." — Daido Moriyama, Japanese photographer, born 1938
"For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality." — Daido Moriyama, Japanese photographer, born 1938
"The camera eye is the one in the middle of our forehead, combining how we see with what there is to be seen." — Wright Morris, American photographer, born 1910
"People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend." — Jim Morrison, American singer, born 1943
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." — Jim Morrison, American singer, born 1943
"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives." — Toni Morrison, American novelist, born 1931
"Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail." — Robert Motherwell, American painter, born 1915
"Sometimes images may emerge from some chord in my subconscious, the way a dream might. Even in those paintings where an image unconsciously develops, a certain kind of experience is usually necessary in order to perceive it" — Robert Motherwell, American painter, born 1915
"Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty." — Robert Motherwell, American painter, born 1915
"One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union." — Robert Motherwell, American painter, born 1915