Approach Quote by Floyd Cooper

I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a…

— Will Self

[I have a] way of making narrative sculpture, where first you make a text and out of that text you make objects. [...] I…

— Matthew Barney

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't…

— David Lynch

I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative.

— Robert Wilson

A story is like building a chapel; a novel is a cathedral.

— Rosario Ferre

I used to use a lot of words in the paintings but stopped because it created a narrative - or an answer to a…

— Danny Fox

As human beings, it's good to build stories.

— Thomas Tuchel

Writing in a lot of ways feels more like excavation than construction. It feels like you're uncovering this thing bit by bit, discovering what…

— Rian Johnson

A story works when there's momentum, life behind the words. Some stories have this and others don't, and it's difficult to say why this…

— Mary J. Miller

I'm not trying to create an aesthetic that's my own; I'm trying to create a way understanding things through drawing and painting. That's the…

— Kysa Johnson

Drawing' is telling a story with pictures. 'Writing' is telling a story with words.

— Butch Hartman

Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language.

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer