Artist Quote by Paul Kane

The freedom he gave himself to work and change shape and change ideas and work all the time with joy, the joy of painting…

— Agnes Varda

An intrinsic part of the whole delicious, exuberant fun, and joy of painting consists in simply not having to bother about making a mess,…

— Mervyn Levy

I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic gluttony. I…

— Tana French

A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the…

— David Nicholls

I find it interesting that people often seem to believe that authors of realistic fiction are directly translating their personal experiences into their work.…

— Malinda Lo

The translation process becomes a highly subjective thing - turning reds and blues into black-and-whiteness. It's really bizarre for me.

— Robert Longo

The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from…

— Gore Vidal

The director works as an interpretive artist, but he's still an artist, so you also have to give him room to create and to…

— August Wilson

The translation called good has original value as a work of art.

— Benedetto Croce

“My goal is to act as a faithful interpreter, preserving as much of the original's nuances of meaning as possible without embellishment or omission.…

— Ken Liu

A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest…

— Jonathan Swift

I had the advantage, that I know Swedish. So I had the Swedish book and I had a lot of English translations, and German…

— Liv Ullmann

There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US.

— Laila Lalami

Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our…

— Richard M. Weaver