Abstract Quote by Gunter Brus

Drawing from art history and mythology allows me to connect with viewers in a familiar, yet loose visual framework. Blending disparate histories and themes…

— John Dyer Baizley

I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of…

— Anonymous

I do a lot of urban fantasy, which is modern-day cities, but you've got magic, you've got fairies running around, or cryptozoological creatures running…

— Seanan McGuire

I'm not interested in plots. I'm interested only in the characterization of people and what they do.

— Erskine Caldwell

Don't go into great detail describing places and things, unless you're Margaret Atwood and can paint scenes with language. You don't want descriptions that…

— Elmore Leonard

I've always been fond of the idea expressed in Buddhist art, that there are certain objects that, just by seeing them, can plant a…

— Alex Grey

For my art, there is a common theme most of the time: it is using the things we can see to search for the…

— Cai Guo-Qiang

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore…

— Brian De Palma

Content, it dreams awake, and spins the fabric of tales. There is really nothing to be done with such imagery except to use it:…

— Patricia A. McKillip

I abstract it in my photographs: I like large planes and spaces, areas of texture and light, like deserts or oceans or monumental places.

— Herb Ritts

I am very much interested in fairy tales. I guess that most of the films I like to do have this kind of aspect.

— Lucile Hadzihalilovic

I'm not very interested in charting a day-to-day familiar reality. I'm always looking for territory in which to explore the BIG subjects, the life-or-death…

— Rose Tremain