My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.
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Related I've always been involved in the visual arts and music. ADAM JONES I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'... ANNIE PARISSE I'm quite an untidy person in a lot of ways. But order makes me happy. I have to have a clear de... JOANNE HARRIS I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with th... KARA WALKER Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think ... ROBERT WILSON That's why I ended up going to Lancaster University, because they had a visual arts course, and ... ANDY SERKIS I wasn't a big fan of social anthropology. And, luckily, that created room for me to work in vis... DARREN ARONOFSKY Well, I think my stand-up is often kind of visual. Not like Carrot Top visual, but visual. MICHAEL IAN BLACK Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards... BARBARA KRUGER I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into langu... MARIANNE WIGGINS I had done student films for the School Of Visual Arts and for NYU and all these schools in New York... GUILLERMO DIAZ I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for severa... KAREN TRAVISS I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred ... J. CARTER BROWN I paint. I love the visual arts. KRISTIN BAUER VAN STRATEN I am so organized that it's dysfunctional. Everything has a place. I am a very visual person, so... ALEXA VON TOBEL I've always loved painting, although I never show anyone what I've done. Mainly because I do... JUDI DENCH One of my favorite ways to find fictional inspiration, by the way, is to browse historical timelines... ETHAN CANIN So, it makes sense that perception might be more influenced by language in the right half of the vis... AUBREY GILBERT I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a... J. G. BALLARD I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or a... DAVID BOWIE I feel that every day, all of us now are being blasted by information design. It's being poured ... DAVID MCCANDLESS To have my fan club. I am very proud of doing everything. I try to support my parents, friends and f... CHRIS BURKE I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionat... DANIEL DAE KIM I think I managed to trick people a little bit into thinking I'm more arty by making creative, a... SIA Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word... EUGENIO MONTALE I don't think music is the first thing I turn to. For me, I think visual art is more the thing. ... BAT FOR LASHES We have people interested in fiber arts, quilting, sculpture -- any of the visual arts in quite a va... JEANNE BOARD I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter. ANNIE PARISSE I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training ... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction... WILLIAM GIBSON At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fant... LAURIE ANDERSON I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall ... LOIS LOWRY Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual... WAYNE MCGREGOR Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination. BARBARA JANUSZKIEWICZ I think every writer of detective fiction writing today has been influenced by Mr. Parker. I'm o... ROBERT CRAIS Quilting has evolved. It's still evolving. It's gone from necessity into visual arts... GINNY MOE I like visual images and there are certainly other bands that have strong visual images going all th... FRANK BLACK When I work, I'm thinking in terms of purely visual effects and relations, and any verbal equiva... ADOLPH GOTTLIEB I tried the second season of 'American Horror Story,' and it scared me horribly. I guess I p... JEWELL PARKER RHODES A visual sense is something you either have or you don't. ELLIOTT ERWITT The obvious choice isn't always the best choice, but sometimes, by golly, it is. I don't sto... ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY I don't use film cameras. I don't do visual effects the same way. We don't use miniature... JAMES CAMERON For some reason I have a visual intuition that allows me to design things in an interesting way, and... DAVID CARSON I like San Francisco, but I don't think I'd want to work in Palo Alto. It seems like a prett... JON ORINGER Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I... CHARLES DE GAULLE I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is sti... TAO LIN These two guys did amazing things all year and participated in lots of visual arts classes. They wer... MARY SAUNDERS There is no society ever discovered in the remotest corner of the world that has not had something t... STEVEN PINKER I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in som... DAVID BOWIE So, I'm always around video games but I've always been interested in them from a visual pers... SOPHIA BUSH The world we live in is not purely visual. For me it's totally poly-sensorial so the tactile, se... ROSS LOVEGROVE For me and my films, I want my audience to experience cinema in its full glory. It's not just vi... JAMES WAN I fear that my mind would starve and that I might find myself in danger if I had no visual informati... ROSEMARY MAHONEY I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or a... DAVID BOWIE I was hoping to attend the School of Visual Arts and had a portfolio built up. KEVIN DILLON I think that even though my father wasn't there, in his death and in his memory, he has been a m... FRANCIS CAPRA I always see my songs in colors, and I'm often more inspired by movies and photographs than I am... CHARLI XCX I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read nov... KAREN TRAVISS My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left hig... SAMANTHA SHANNON Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I'v... GIORGOS SEFERIS In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests... CHUCK CLOSE I was like, 'I don't know if I could be an Olympian...' But my dad really influenced me ... PAT SUMMITT I try to educate people about materialism through my work. I try to show them real visual luxury. JEFF KOONS I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tel... LEE DANIELS I don't think I've ever been haunted by a ghost, but I always joke with my fiance about the ... KATEE SACKHOFF As soon as I went to painting school in New York, I took an experimental film course, and everything... PATTY JENKINS If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of gettin... MICHAEL KORDA Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-c... BARBARA JANUSZKIEWICZ I don't have a style. I've never thought of myself as a stylist like the visual stylists I a... SYDNEY POLLACK It has been said that 80% of what people learn is visual. ALLEN KLEIN I'm a visual thinker, not a language-based thinker. My brain is like Google Images. TEMPLE GRANDIN 'Dreams from My Father' was not a memoir or an autobiography; it was instead, in multitudino... DAVID GARROW Everything in my life - family, friends, even my fiance - are all second to soccer. And I've won... CARLI LLOYD Right from my childhood, I have believed in a Supreme Power. I don't know whether it has form, o... PAWAN KALYAN Not only is writing more important than ever, but visual literacy is vital. We don't teach enoug... MARISSA MOSS I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different... BARBARA KRUGER Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're pre... JEFF VANDERMEER Amongst my friends, I am known as the most cynical person they know - I'm incredibly cynical. I ... NIGEL COLE I don't have to have any special skills or martial arts in my back pocket. JASON RITTER I am not a traditionalist, questioning the social condition of the society. To achieve this, I use V... GOPAKUMAR R I'm not super comfortable in my skin. I have to make it work for me, and that usually amounts to... AUBREY PLAZA Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts. YAHOO SERIOUS You can certainly be an artist anywhere, ... But it's helpful to live in a community that has a cons... AMY FISHER I see my role as a translator, telling the story that's in the book using the more visual langua... JANE GOLDMAN At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth. HARRY SEIDLER If you gonna challenge my ways, know my history. Don't put nobody in my face that don't know... RAEKWON I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thoug... IAN ANDERSON As soon as I went to painting school in New York, I took an experimental film course, and everything... PATTY JENKINS I still do all my developing and printing in my darkroom. Being in New York, you get tremendous expo... SUNG JIN PARK I believe the work of art should change the existing visual, intellectual and aesthetical sense and ... GOPAKUMAR R Generally, information gained from visual observations is used in combination with information gaine... ERIC MOUSEL I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influ... BARRY EISLER My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive. CHARLES GWATHMEY I don't think my background in Zambia has really affected my lens because my classical training ... DAMBISA MOYO I think there are ways that graduate students can fact-check their work. I think there are ways that... MATTHEW DESMOND My great fear has always been complete and utter failure. Hence, you see, all the dispossessed peopl... PETER ACKROYD You don't go see Primus to see what kind of new clothing I'm wearing or what my new hairdo i... LES CLAYPOOL I was not influenced by Jack Benny, and people have remarked on my timing and Jack's timing, but... BOB NEWHART God has blessed me with an amazing family, friends and work colleagues that have been my joy, my sup... JOSIE LOREN I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things - the ... AARON KOBLIN
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