Beginning Quote by Marc Davis

Back in the fifties (the nineteen fifties, not the eighteen fifties) I did some writing for Mad Magazine, along with my friend Ernie Kovaks…

— Orson Bean

I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject was an aircraft, which…

— Norman Foster

When I was about five, I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.

— Keira Knightley

It's funny that pirates were always going around searching for treasure, and they never realized that the real treasure was the fond memories they…

— Jack Handey

Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often published my…

— Hokusai

One thing I longed to do was to design a complete look, from head to toe, so I started a make-up line in 1966.

— Mary Quant

I tossed off a mention of the pirates early on. And they became integral to the backstory. Sometimes now I imagine them in the…

— Edan Lepucki

I remember when I first went to the Baltimore Museum of Art and I bought this little Moreau print in the gift shop. I…

— John Waters

As soon as you think, 'Pirates are really popular right now with kids so I'm going to write a pirate movie'... that's when you're…

— Genndy Tartakovsky

When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.

— Keira Knightley

They were just snapshots, nothing special, nothing particularly artistic. They were used for utility purposes. (On photographs of mundane streetscapes he had Stanley Something-or-other…

— Robert Crumb

Open a magazine from the 1930s and '40s and look at the illustrations in it. There's nobody alive that could touch the way they…

— John Kricfalusi