Able Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

[Albert] Hoxie, my Western Civilization professor. I had him in my freshman year and he opened up an extraordinary world to me that I've…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Greece was a muse. It inspired creativity in magical ways that I can't even begin to understand or explain.

— Joe Bonamassa

[My twin brother] he was the star artist of the family as we - as we were growing up. He eventually lost interest and…

— Kehinde Wiley

One of my most strong memories was studying with Mel Bochner, one of the, I think, high water marks of American conceptual art.

— Kehinde Wiley

The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.

— John Dyer

I grew up in adoration of writers like Hemingway, George Orwell, Anna Akhmatova, and that has always been my idea about the artist -…

— Haris Pasovic

Even as a teenager we got interested in the Beats, Dada, and Surrealism, and so on. What drew us to those was that their…

— Genesis P-Orridge

My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a…

— Ben van Berkel

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known…

— Henry Flynt

Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.

— Nic Pizzolatto

I've been looking at oil paintings from oriental artists lately, and the one artist who's inspired me right now is a man named Hokusai…

— Renee O'Connor

One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th…

— Criss Angel