Illustration

🇬🇧Alan Moore

Literature

b. 1953

"Transcript of an interview with Alan Moore on BBC Radio 4"

🇺🇸Richard Corben

Art

1940–2020

"Mr. Richard Corben... a genuine giant of his chosen medium.|Alan Moore"

🇺🇸Harry Harrison (writer)

Literature

1925–2012

"Harry Harrison Papers at the University of South Florida"

🇦🇷Alberto Manguel

Literature

b. 1948

"Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters."

"No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it."

🇯🇵Hokusai

Art

ukiyo-e

1760–1849

"Personal Wepage on Hokusai includes a bio and gallery"

🇬🇧Henry Holiday

Art

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

1839–1927

"Much fruitless speculation has been spent over supposed hidden meanings in Lewis Carroll's Hunting of the Snark. The inclination to search for these was strictly natural, though the search was destined to fail."

J. M. W. Turner

Art

Romanticism

1775–1851

"To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art."

🇨🇦Rupi Kaur

Literature

b. 1992

"it was when I stopped searching for home within others and lifted the foundations of home within myself I found there were no roots more intimate than those between a mind and body that have decided to be whole."

🇬🇧Ralph Steadman

Literature

b. 1934

"' Don't write, Ralph. You'll bring shame on your family. ' -- Hunter S. Thompson"

"In my crazy world, above all others...you were the only one who was the ugliest. And you were the only one...who was the most beautiful.... This is the unspoken truth."

🇺🇸Faith Ringgold

Art

feminist art

1930–2024

"…Quilting was a method of artistic expression that could also be used to cover people, to keep them warm, but which also put designs together to make them beautiful…"

🇺🇸Natalie Babbitt

Literature

1932–2016

"Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live."

🇬🇧Michael Morpurgo

Literature

b. 1943

"I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less."

🇺🇸Lyonel Feininger

Art

Expressionism

1871–1956

"Where I used to strive for movement and restlessness I now attempt to sense and express the complete total calm of objects and the surrounding air."

🇺🇸Jen Wang

Literature

b. 1984

"I wrote this book for my teenage self, so it’s all about themes that were important to my young self: questioning your identity and gender, but also your creative aspirations and the person you want to be."