Arms Quote by Ricky Jay

My father, Leo Henry Brown, really was talented - he could write. He had a gift, and he had a great, sly humor.

— Angie Dickinson

I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he…

— Omari Hardwick

“Between the ages of ten and fifteen in St. Petersburg, I must have read more fiction and poetry—English, Russian and French—than in any other…

— Vladimir Nabokov

My teacher introduced me to this photographer Eugène Atget. He was a French photographer in the late 1800s up until 1927 in Paris. He…

— Jeff Vespa

“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

Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.

— Kazimir Malevich

any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.

— Sue Grafton

There are certain figures in the arts who, although minor in accomplishment and equivocal in their aesthetic influence, are so completely representative of the…

— Anonymous

“Back hunched magician with golden knife Notch the velvet green skin of English life Couplet from ‘Dads’ by Mk Bhutta”

— Lecturer M K Bhutta Poet

I was influenced by Ray Harryhausen and Lotte Reiniger, with her twitchy, cutout animation, which I happened to see at a very young age,…

— Henry Selick

We were always drawing comics as kids. My brother Charles made me draw comics. I was very much under his domination. He was actually…

— Robert Crumb

My dad, when he was young, did Shakespeare in school, and my mom was a little bit of an artist, but everybody was pragmatic.

— Ato Essandoh