Artists
- Michael Murphy (actor) (born 1938), American actor
- Michael Murphy (author) (born 1930), American Integral Movement author and co-founder of the Esalen Institute
- Michael Bryan Murphy, former lead singer of REO Speedwagon
- Mike L. Murphy (born 1975), American film maker and animator
- Michael Murphy (musician), folk musician based in Omaha, Nebraska
- Michael Murphy (singer) (born 1986), New Zealand Idol runner up
- Mic Murphy, member of musical duo The System
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“The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex.”
—Adam Smith (1723–1790)
“The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“You are always looking for already-felt emotions, just as you like to get an old pair of trousers back from the cleaners, which seem new when you don’t look too closely. Artists are cleaners, don’t let yourself be taken in by them. True modern works of art are made not by artists but quite simply by men.”
—Francis Picabia (1878–1953)