Art Quote by Ama Ata Aidoo

Joan Didion's 'The Year of Magical Thinking' comes to mind as an example of a piece of media that I really respect and would…

— Lucy Dacus

For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs,…

— Arthur Rimbaud

[My favourite are] the films of Agnes Varda, because of her sense of humor and the intimate, personal way she tells her stories. She…

— Maya Goded

Bergman movies were the most influential. They used to show at Goucher University, which was where my parents used to live. 'Brink of Life'…

— John Waters

I had a lot of fun writing things that died during dress rehearsal. Sometimes I remember the crazy ones that died even more fondly…

— John Mulaney

As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors…

— Ernst Toller

I'm obsessed with Agatha Christie, my favourite film is 'Death On the Nile.'

— Joanna Page

A movie that I've seen probably the most is 'Fanny & Alexander,' the Ingmar Bergman movie. I even dragged my friends to the super…

— Gillian Jacobs

The first time I came to New York - and the first time I saw the movie 'Paris Is Burning' - I learned about…

— Andreja Pejic

I have a bit of a love affair with fairy tales and some of the ideas of Irish mythology, like Oscar Wilde and W.B.…

— Hozier

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

— Edgar Allan Poe

I adore all Agatha Christie's books and turn to them whenever I'm ill or need cheering up.

— Sophie Kinsella