Artist Quote by Sheila Heti

I read a lot of graphic novels - some of my favorites graphic novelists or artists are Rebecca Kraatz, Gabrielle Bell, Graham Roumieu, Tom…

— Matthea Harvey

I didn't think much about Marsden Hartley until very recently, but Gertrude Stein found him to be the best American painter in Europe at…

— Robert Indiana

My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.

— Paloma Faith

Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a…

— Annie Dillard

My freshman English professor at Kent State University in 1984 told me I was a good writer, and she loved all the silly pictures…

— Dav Pilkey

“Nordic writers to include social critiques in their fiction. It was one of the qualities I had admired since first reading Sjöwall”

— Stieg Larsson

As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and…

— Viggo Mortensen

When I was growing up, my idea of a writer was someone like Sven Hassel, that mysterious Danish author who wrote thrillers about men…

— Andrew O'Hagan

At around 16, I became obsessed with James Joyces A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man. I was absorbed by the sense…

— Michael Rosen

My work is based on a tradition quite distinct from the Eckersberg tradition, a Nordic line of development that had never been clearly and…

— Asger Jorn

My mother teaches high school English, and she's an artist and a poet and a sculptor, she's published twelve poetry books. I grew up…

— Jason Silva

To be honest, I don't particularly see myself as an Icelandic artist. I'm a European artist.

— Johann Johannsson