Steven Hall Quotes

I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.

Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating.

I met Gerhard Richter and Alighiero Boetti when I was a teenager, and I was really inspired by them. When Boetti died, I realized I only vaguely remembered so many things he told me. It was such a pity. Had I only recorded his voice, he would still be with me, and I could listen to it from time to time.

Film for me became how I related to everything else.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

There is something in the act of having tattoos done that I love. It can be quite addictive. I've got a few on my back because my friend is an artist, and a few on my arms. Every time I pass a tattoo parlour, I think, 'Maybe just a tiny one.'

The thing that probably trips me up the most are people getting tattoos of stuff that I've designed in my books. That always spins me out in a weird way. It seems like such a permanent commitment to something I've done. I don't know that I could do that for anyone else.

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.

I remember that Charles Schulz, at the end of his life, had eyes full of tears for Charlie Brown. I thought about the reason for all his emotion: he had lived for 50 years with them.

When I met Miller, for me it wasn't a question of wanting to meet him because it was Arthur Miller; it was a kind of astonishment that I could meet someone who was so deeply embedded in the psyche of my artistic development.

Music has always been profoundly important to me.

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

I have literally run into 20 people all around the world with my face tattooed on them.

People are proud of their tattoos. It's like a modern coat of arms.

Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.

I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul.

It's impossible to have a favourite Shakespeare, since so many of the plays rouse and inspire completely different parts of your being.

My life is in dialogue with the plays that I write. The relationship I have with my plays is very, very intimate, and I dot my life through them.

I've had no fewer than three young women on separate occasions come up to me at book signings and unzip their pants, turn around, and drop them to show me that they had 'Bonnie lassie' tattooed across their rumpuses!

The number of people who read a poem is not as important as how the poem affects those who read it.

With 'Girls,' I have been able to plug into almost everything I've felt that's personal and sensitive.

I was born and raised on 'Singin' in the Rain.' It's in my work. It's in me.

It's quite amazing how tattoos in general have been more and more accepted.