#graph

Most creative-writing teachers have had the experience of occasionally helping to produce, by accident, a pornographer. ↗

— John Gardner

#art

I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing. ↗

— Natalie Merchant

#autobiographical #bring #i #i write #into

If geography is prose, maps are iconography. ↗

— Lennart Meri

#iconography #maps #prose

A photographer without a magazine behind him is like a farmer without fields. ↗

— Norman Parkinson

#farmer #fields #him #like #magazine

I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant! ↗

— Pat Morita

#away #been #detail #i #just

You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life. ↗

— Joan Miró

#photography #art

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#does #forms #frieze #i #life

One of the things I thought a lot about was how can we get the views, for instance, the main plaza, you look up to Telegraph Hill from there and therefore it would be a disaster to close that view off. ↗

— Lawrence Halprin

#close #disaster #get #hill #how

Later, I went down to the Washington field office and an onsite polygraph was administered. ↗

— Steven Hatfill

#down #field #i #later #office

My songs form a kind of biography or diary of my life as they are about people I have loved and people I only knew in my heart, places I have seen only for a moment and places I have lived all my life. ↗

— Justin Hayward

#biography #diary #form #heart #i