Book Quote by Christopher Meledandri

“What was the point of accurately rendering sketches, when everyone could draw up the same picture in their minds? What was special about being…

— Michael Walterich

“And yet the point of view from which his ideas on art had sprung was a simple one: for him, literary schools did not…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

That afternoon he told me that the difference between human beings and animals was that human beings were able to dream while awake. He…

— Steven Millhauser

“Art, he said, was a controlled madness...He said that books weren't made of themes, which you could write essays about, but of images that…

— Steven Millhauser

From a slight, undetermined drawing, where the ideas of the composition and character are just touched upon, the imagination supplies more than the painter…

— Joshua Reynolds

“with little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits. His fancy grew full of what he used…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Theodor Geisel (otherwise known as Dr. Seuss) spent his workdays ensconced in his private studio, the walls lined with sketches and drawings, in a…

— Susan Cain

The thing represented had to pass through two distorting lenses: the artist's mind, and his medium of expression, before it emerged as a man-made…

— Arthur Koestler

The artwork had very little to do with the thought process, and the writing too, for that matter. What happens, happens, and it happens…

— Jules Feiffer

These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes,…

— Giorgio Vasari

“In his earliest youth, he had drawn inspiration from really bad authors, as you may have seen from his style; as he grew older,…

— Gustave Flaubert

“He also discovered that when he touched certain parts of the brain, he triggered long-lost childhood memories or dreamlike scenes—which implied that higher mental…

— Norman Doidge