Art Quote by Chath Piersath

I like owning my own narrative. It depends: I either give it all up, or I don't have any control. It's really hard to…

— Selah Louise Marley

I create my subjects somehow visualizing them in my style. I start as a poet, put the colors and composition down on canvas as…

— Fernando Botero

My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to…

— Natalie Babbitt

I don't generally derive my stories from novels. I try to turn into film things I have felt or experienced.

— Abbas Kiarostami

My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual.

— Jeff VanderMeer

I write my own stories. I like telling stories to little children. I think the good thing about stories is they carry you to…

— Georgie Henley

I'm interested in storytelling. I love being an artist now and connecting through art.

— Nicole Kidman

I start writing, pull whatever images happen to occur to me and make up a story, instead of starting with details that are real…

— John Darnielle

Narrative nonfiction was not my forte. I always wanted to let my imagination run free, and the facts sometimes got in the way. At…

— Douglas Florian

I used to write my own versions of famous tales, such as William Tell or Robin Hood, and illustrate them myself, too. When I…

— Peter Robinson

My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition, the stories from my grandmother and conversations with [my] mother. The world is full of discussions…

— Lucrecia Martel

I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself.

— Pat Conroy