• Photography, for me, brings us back to the actual event more clearly, more directly. Contemplation allows me to imagine my own truth, and the idea that I get of this truth helps me to discover other ideas, and so on…My work becomes a chain of ideas created by the many images that I look at and which I have registered, often on contrasting subjects.
  Francis Bacon Quotes
• Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look for the suggestion of one image as it relates to another. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people’s plates. When I paint, I want to paint an image from my imagination, and this image is subsequently transformed.
  Francis Bacon Quotes
• I couldn't imagine what I could ever do with so much money.
  Andrew Carnegie Quotes
• I go through phases where I need to hear some pop and some N' Sync. I don't know exactly what I'm gonna do yet. I don't want to stay away from anything yet, because I don't really know. I probably won't be singing country, I know that. Because that's not all of my fan base and I want to do things that my sister's gonna like...Once I sign with a label, when I start meeting with people, then I think I'll be able to find where I should be at. To give you an answer, kind of rock hip-hop, if you could imagine that. Hip-Hop beats with a guitar.
  Lindsay Lohan Quotes
• A distinction is made between painters who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Personally, I think neither of these methods must be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Both may be used in turn by the same individual, either because he needs contact with objects in order to receive sensations that will excite his creative facility, or because his sensations are already organized.
  Henri Matisse Quotes
• I'm not going to be in a movie where people are being shot which eliminates almost all roles. I just won't do it. I don't believe in it and I believe that the imagery of films is very powerful, more powerful than people give it credit for being. And to say it's a reflection of society is a cop-out. So it's not what I choose to do because I can't justify it in terms of the way I lead my life.
  Oprah Winfrey Quotes