Alive Quote by Stan Lee

Probably, if we looked at Da Vinci or Michelangelo with care, we'd see a historical particularity that the work is not treated as having.…

— Cass Sunstein

If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.

— Banksy

I hope and dream the time will come when serious artists will make marvelous pictures that will love and live in life-like manner and…

— Winsor McCay

I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece.

— John Updike

Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say:…

— Gianni Versace

The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have…

— William Faulkner

Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

— Paul Schrader

You talk about auteur de cinema having things in their heads and putting them all across, can you imagine Shakespeare writing screenplays?

— Peter O'Toole

If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would…

— Paul Valery

There are artists who are writers, but there was no such thing as cartoons that were written by somebody who couldn't draw.

— John Kricfalusi

If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

— Steven Wright

Coming from the world of comics, I was very surprised that writers and illustrators, for the most part, don't talk, and they don't collaborate.

— Gene Luen Yang