What we hope for from the artist is help in discovering…

“I hope the artist who illustrates this work will take care to do justice to his portrait. Mr. Clive himself, let that painter be…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

There's been this steady metamorphosis from just surviving to being a craftsman and, ultimately, the hope is to be an artist in what you…

— R.A. Dickey

If anything, I hope being an artist opens up more opportunities 'cause I feel there's a lot of things I could do, like musically…

— PJ Harvey

“Nighthawks, by Edward Hopper.”

— Anonymous

Directors who have inspired me include Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, lngmar Bergman, John Ford, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford…

— David Lynch

Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put your camera anywhere,…

— Wim Wenders

America, the Idea of: We yearned for its beer and jazz, its smoke-filled nightclubs, its Edward Hopper bars, the melancholy of rainy Manhattan Gershwin…

— Michael Bywater

I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many painters, but I love Francis Bacon the most,…

— David Lynch

My dad sung and played piano. But he was also a man of God. He was a minister. So when Sam Cooke would come…

— Merry Clayton

“A worshiping community is made up of individuals whose lives are centered around the Savior they worship together each week. A worshiping community expects…

— Bob Kauflin

When on a Sunday morning we hear the old bells ring out, we ask ourselves, "Is it possible! This is done on account of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Sunday morning came – next day the battalions would leave for the front; the church was filled; the volunteers were there, their young faces…

— Mark Twain

Sunday morning, before we go to hear the Word of God preached...let us not rush into God’s presence careless, reckless, and unprepared, as if…

— J. C. Ryle

“The sun of Sunday morning up out of the sleepless sea from black Liverpool. Sitting on the rocks over the water with a jug…

— J.P. Donleavy

I grew up in Harlem. My grandmother was one of the best cooks around, but the first thing she did on Sunday mornings when…

— Richard Carmona