Big break Quote by Ragnar Kjartansson

The paintings by Van Gough and Chagall had a big influence on me.

— John Dyer

I connected very much with all the work of Joan Crawford because she started as a flapper. She used to dance and sing and…

— Berenice Bejo

During the Me Too breakthrough, I was hanging out with Emma Thompson and Emily Watson - two people I've looked up to my entire…

— Florence Pugh

There were musicians that influenced me, but they weren't all women. Teena Marie was a big influence because she wrote and produced her own…

— Queen Latifah

I started as a black and white photographer, but the colors I was seeing were just so lurid and compelling and awful at the…

— David Maisel

It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists…

— Brooke Shields

Growing up I was very into art. In high school I was into the surrealists and impressionists, and I loved Klimt. In '91 or…

— Chloe Sevigny

In my thirties I found myself, to use a colloquial fiction, in a suburban house at the foothills of the Dublin mountains. Married and…

— Eavan Boland

I was influenced growing up by everything from Harlequin romances to Fedor Dostoyevsky and Albert Camus, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and later Lydia Davis,…

— Danzy Senna

For me, the highlight was meeting all the Motown acts, as I adore black soul music. I met Stevie Wonder who I love, and…

— Tony Blackburn

I was looking at the work of the New York street artists and then discovering Basquiat and Haring after that and seeing how the…

— Robert Del Naja

I was fortunate to be connected with bands who later became pioneers for certain genres of music scenes. And my art went along with…

— Arik Roper