Bernini Quote by Richard Meier

As an artist, I identify with Sandro Botticelli. We know him as the man who painted Primavera and The Birth Of Venus. The goddesses…

— Mary Pope Osborne

My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico García Lorca.

— Leonard Cohen

“I’ve had so many influences and sources of inspiration as an illustrator that it is impossible to name just one. I loved Aubrey Beardsley…

— Alan Lee

For me, one of my personal inspirations was designers in the mid-20th century named Charles and Ray Eames.

— Joe Gebbia

I should mention Vittorio Storaro, who was Bernardo Bertolucci's cinematographer. You watch those films and they are exceptional.

— Vilmos Zsigmond

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

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

I love what many of my contemporaries are doing, especially people like Terry Gilliam, David Cronenberg, P. T. Anderson, and Alfonso Cuaron.

— Guillermo del Toro

My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.

— Paloma Faith

I've been fortunate to work with Alfre Woodard and Jeffrey Wright; people who are artists, have careers, longevity and full lives. That looks good…

— Nicole Beharie

Robert de Niro has always been fascinating to me. And if John Cazale were still alive, that would be a man I'd love to…

— Tatiana Maslany

I think Ralph Fiennes has had a really wonderful career; there's something sort of classic about him. He does a bunch of different projects,…

— Ian Harding