A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt

I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.

A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt

The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.

A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt

You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.

A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt

I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself. I think I also care about painting because I'm not musical. Painting to me is not a metaphor for writing, but something people do that can never be reduced to words.

Aaron Huey
Aaron Huey

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

Aaron Judge
Aaron Judge

Sometimes you've got to tip your cap when they're painting stuff on the corner. But you can't give up, got to keep battling and make some adjustments.

Aaron Koblin
Aaron Koblin

I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.

Aaron Koblin
Aaron Koblin

I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.

Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Sorkin

Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.

Abbey Lincoln
Abbey Lincoln

I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.