Roger Penrose Quotes

I have the '77 Million Paintings' running in my studio a lot of the time. Occasionally I'll look up from what I'm doing and I think, 'God, I've never seen anything like that before!' And that's a real thrill.

I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.

I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.

Through that, I got to know Jerry's work, and I am definitely his number-one fan right now, which is interesting because it usually works the other way around: you usually create a project based on your hero.

There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.

Their films would probably be better if they'd seen a few more films, which runs counter to this idiotic theory that you run the risk of being influenced if you see too much.

When people ask me what it is about Brazil and my work, it's not something that I can say literally. It's unidentifiable. It's like when you do research and things inspire you. If you're smart enough, then obviously you don't take it literally. The inspiration will come out later somehow.

Just like zillions of children, album covers educated and informed me, and certainly did I later transpose organically, rather than by intent, those principles both in fashion design and photography.

I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process.

Movies like 'Westworld' used ideas I'd thought of a long time ago.

There are so many artists that have inspired me.

It's weird: I don't really know where I pull my inspiration from. I think it's N.E.R.D.

Artwork, films, TV - it's always informed my work, no matter what I'm working on.

I dunno - it's like, again, Juice was super big for me in terms of inspiration, and I learned a lot from him in terms of his recording process and stuff like that.

The one artist who actually had influence over me was Bo Bartlett.

It just sort of happened. I wrote like what I'd always read and what was in the movies... I'm sure popular music is supposed to be like this.

I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.

My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee . . . and the poetics of his paintings.

I didn't sit down then and start writing poems, but it was in the back of my mind.

I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer so often and associate myself with works of art.

The best visual book I can think of is Lynda Barry's What It Is, but although I refer to it all the time it's not a creative writing book per se.

[Personal life] doesn't affect my creative process. It just gives me more subjects to talk about. Basically whatever you put in your music is how you want people to view you.

I listen to a lot of music. But I definitely haven't looked at an artist and like thought I want to have a song like this.