Able Quote by Mark Waid

Kerry James Marshall especially was a huge influence on me in graduate school, as were Wangechi Mutu and Julie Mehretu. These artists are titans.…

— Toyin Odutola

I also got encouragement from my teachers at primary school but one person in particular who had a significant impact on my lean towards…

— St. Lucia

Joseph Gotto, yeah. Just all-around one of the more inspiring artists - not because of any sort of specific content direction, but rather the…

— Kehinde Wiley

One association with the arts that I vividly remember was a magazine called Normal Instructor, a teachers' magazine, that Miss George would hold up…

— Paul Smith

Leonard [Nimoy] was such a teacher for me. He was one of the most fully realized human beings I have ever known on every…

— Zachary Quinto

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other…

— John Steinbeck

There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to concentrate on…

— Graham Coxon

Outside the world of politics, one person in the world of the arts I would mention as an influence is Nick Cave, another person…

— Nick Cave

When I am working a book, I go through my library and take a look through some of the great cartoonists of the past,…

— Jules Feiffer

When I was starting, I was very much influenced by the straight up, eyes to camera style of August Sander. He is really the…

— Derek Ridgers

My high school art teacher was the best in the world.

— Bud Luckey

In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.

— Daniel Clowes