Aesthetic Quote by Lucy Corin

I am glad it's [California novel] resonated with people because, for me, most apocalyptic novels aren't scary, because they feel so very far off.

— Edan Lepucki

When everyone tells you, 'No, no, no,' your creative forces get a little twisted and turn into something more apocalyptic than ever.

— Joey Jordison

“All those summer drives, no matter where I was going, to a person, a project, an adventure, or home, alone in the car with…

— Rebecca Solnit

I've begun to look at the world through apocalypse eyes. Our society, which seems so sturdily built out of concrete and custom, is just…

— Neil Strauss

“In our confusion, we're accustomed to according the titles of good news and "a positive message" to the most soul-sucking, sentimental fare imaginable. Any…

— David Dark

Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for…

— J. J. Abrams

I don't really get inspired by landscapes that much, it's all people.

— Jade Bird

Unlike a novel, where you expect a different kind of arc that leaves us with a somber sense of resolution, I think a story…

— Laura van den Berg

When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much…

— Edward Ruscha

My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'...

— Gerhard Richter

Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have…

— Mary Wesley

“Where I had expected to appreciate the monuments and love the natural environment, the reality was entirely the reverse. The immense beauty of many…

— Tim Winton