There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just…

If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give…

— Pablo Picasso

Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

— Jasper Johns

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without…

— Jasper Johns

In my early work, I tried to hide my personality, my psychological state, my emotions. This was partly due to my feelings about myself…

— Jasper Johns

I had an idea for a technologically advanced luxury watch. I got involved in digital art and neon painting and put on shows of…

— Giorgio Moroder

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our…

— Rodney Atkins

When I was 12 years old, I went to Natchitoches, La.; it was summer vacation with my family. We visited a plantation, Melrose. And…

— Robert Wilson

Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to…

— Walter Kirn

I don't spend much time thinking about whether God exists. I don't consider that a relevant question. It's unanswerable and irrelevant to my life,…

— Wendy Kaminer

“Nothing exists until it is created.”

— Les Coalson

No good end exists for any dictator!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I have to admit that I get quite emotional listening to the amazing talent that exists in the New York subways.

— Lisa O'Hare

Does God know he [exists]?" "Of course he does. Otherwise, you could not have asked the question, and I could not have answered.

— Douglas Adams

What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it.

— John Frusciante

Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself.…

— Hermann Hesse