The best painting is totally non-narrative. It doesn't…

In narrative cinema, a certain terminology has already been established: 'film noir,' 'Western,' even 'Spaghetti Western.' When we say 'film noir' we know what…

— Jonas Mekas

The best painting comes out of compulsions and obsessions, out of deep love or hate, out of intellectual or emotional involvement with something that…

— Edward Betts

“Evangelion is not so much an original as itself already a copy of popular anime elements, “an aggregate of information without a narrative” or…

— McKenzie Wark

There's some ambient music that doesn't do anything. I wouldn't say that that's narrative. It is narrative in that it creates a sort of…

— Missy Mazzoli

Still I should paint my own places best; painting is with me but another word for feeling, and I associate "my careless boyhood" with…

— John Constable

I think that at its best, painting can be an act of juggling perceptions, a hall of mirrors. And it can be a bit…

— Kehinde Wiley

Americans don't understand what metaphor in cinema is about. They're extremely good at making straightforward, linear narrative movies, which entertain superbly. But they very…

— Peter Greenaway

A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.

— Peter Greenaway

Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs.

— Bernard Malamud

I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized…

— Lois Lowry

A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.

— Deborah Kass

Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them…

— Philipp Meyer

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.

— Tim Vine

Merkel has realized that the euro is not working, but she cannot change the narrative she has created because that narrative has caught the…

— George Soros

Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.

— Mason Cooley