Dadd Quotes & Sayings

I love the Dutch impressionists - Vermeer, Rembrandt. What they were able to do with light was astonishing. As for photographers, I think mostly of the Hungarians: Robert Capa, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Jozsef Pesci. In fact, I have one of his photographs hanging in my house. — Vilmos Zsigmond

O MY WIFE-who made the writing of my previous book a pleasure and writing of the present one a necessity. — Herbert C. Brown

Our forces shall spread like a great plague across the earth, every blue zone on the planet will feel our wrath! — Kane

Every man is defined by his deeds. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I've had so many influences and sources of inspiration as an illustrator that it is impossible to name just one. I loved Aubrey Beardsley when I was a student, and then Edmund Dulac and other Golden Age illustrators made a big impact, as well as Victorian painters like Richard Dadd and Edward Burne-Jones. My long-term heroes though are Albretch Durer, Brueghel, Hieronymous Bosch, Jan Van Eyck, Leonardo, Botticelli, Rembrandt, Turner and Degas. What most of them have in common is brilliant draughtsmanship and a strong linear or graphic quality. Most are also printmakers. The one I keep going back to and who fascinates me the most is JMW Turner, the greatest watercolourist. — Alan Lee

Before I ever put anything on paper, Jerry and I would talk back and forth. — Joe Shuster

In American military cemeteries all over the world, seemingly endless rows of whitened grave markers stand largely unvisited and in silence. The gardeners tend the lawns, one section at a time. Even at the famous sites, tourism is inconstant. — Mark Helprin

Damn it's a shame you're the mighty queen of vials,
With a wide-eyed look and a rotten-toothed smile.
Used to walk with a swagger, now you simply stagger
From one spot on, to the next spot on, to the next spot on, to the next ... — Sadat X

Sawyer watched Rex from the hospital bed. The man was fucking fluttering. Fluffing pillows. Pouring water. Talking to doctors and nurses. Checking on Sawyer without actually talking to him. When — S.E. Jakes

The finger pointing to the moon is not the moon. — Eckhart Tolle

No more unnerving than Christians praying at the feet of a man nailed to a cross, or Hindus chanting in front of a four-armed elephant named Ganesh. Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of prejudice. — Dan Brown

All financial success comes from acting on a plan. A lot of financial failure comes from reacting to the market — Nick Murray

cheese and pizza contributed more than 14 percent of the saturated fat being consumed. — Michael Moss

We often give others the tools for our own demise. — Warren Cassell Jr.

I learned my job from English dramatists. Tennessee Williams was no good for me, New York stuff was no good to me. — William Monahan

Balding is nature's way of getting rid of your third eye's unibrow. — Stanley Victor Paskavich