Ancient Quote by Mary Pope Osborne

As far as visual artists, I find inspiration in Henri Rousseau, who painted amazing, dream-like junglescapes without ever leaving France, and who sort of…

— Christopher Moore

For me Greece is Maria Farantouri. This is how I imagined Goddess Hera to be: strong, pure and vigilant. I have never encountered any…

— Francois Mitterrand

If you think of any past artist, there was something that they looked at that inspired them to make their most famous pieces, whether…

— Coco Rocha

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

The artist by his work is known.

— Francoise-Marguerite de Sevigne

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

To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had a strong…

— Alfred Sisley

Renaissance man, woman, either way it's a worthy pursuit! Like the painters of Emilia's day, I was raised in an environment that encouraged creative…

— Mary Pope Osborne

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

The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his…

— Marshall McLuhan

For me [ Giovanni Lorenzo ] Bernini, [Francesco ] Borromini, and [Donato] Bramante have been as significant as Alvar Aalto, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le…

— Richard Meier

The idea of artist as persona is something that I'm attracted to, so obviously Klaus Nomi is the leader of it.

— Julio Torres