Hair Quote by Emmy Rossum

Old images and films are my main source of inspiration.

— Emilia Wickstead

More and more, as I grow older, I find myself looking for inspiration in painting, illustration, videogames, and old movies.

— Guillermo del Toro

I brought a lot of images of pieces I got from my grandmother, pieces I collected over time and then we met with a…

— Julia Restoin Roitfeld

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to…

— Sigmar Polke

The people I feel inspired around draw pictures, they make paintings.

— Aesop Rock

My work, in a certain way, got started in 1996 when I did an exhibition of thirteen paintings that were solely based on fashion imagery.

— Richard Phillips

At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.

— Harry Seidler

I draw creative juices from everywhere. I'm so visually inspired. I would watch old movies a lot to get inspiration for clothes.

— Cindy Meehl

My art in my head just needs to come out for me - for my legacy and who I am.

— Shawn Crahan

I still think as a painter - especially in terms of structuring a picture... I carefully choose the models, costumes, requisites, and backdrops of…

— Loretta Lux

I paint like an abstract painter everything is inside nothing is meant to be, I take tattoos off a people I take anything that's…

— Jason Shawn Alexander

After graduating from high school, I worked at an advertising agency as a designer. After I left, I spent a year doing nothing in…

— Akira Toriyama