Bitter Quote by Katy Wix

I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction, it's easy…

— Joe Bradley

“... because here I was having a life, even though it was a pastiche of elements of the life of someone else.”

— Steve Martin

Are there any mythical beasts which aren't simple pastiches of nature? Centaurs, minotaurs, unicorns, griffons, chimeras, sphinxes, manticores, and the like don't speak well…

— William Poundstone

I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.

— Joe Bradley

Making a film is like making a mixtape. You're collecting all this stuff and putting your favorite stuff into it: you have actors that…

— Derek Cianfrance

I'm an English songwriter/composer, working in Mandarin and trying to find something about Chinese culture that I really relate to and respect and feel…

— Damon Albarn

The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And…

— V. S. Naipaul

“XVXVI, or 10-5-10-5-1, yielded H-E-H-E-A, which, unless she wanted to show her derisive laughter, made no sense.”

— Laurie R. King

“This business with Sir Magnus Pye had got off to an inauspicious start. It was one thing to be stabbed in your own home—but…

— Anthony Horowitz

All literature, highbrow or low, from the Aeneid onward, is fan fiction…Through parody and pastiche, allusion and homage, retelling and reimagining the stories that…

— Michael Chabon

When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure. Pastiche is…

— Ian Mcewan

As for the various kinds of montage photography, they are in reality not photography at all but a kind of painting in which photography…

— Lewis Mumford