If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably.
Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.
The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.
Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
I feel very connected to poets across the country.
Ghost tells me every few years, Yo, you showed me this style ... I'm like, man, we the same style. At the end of the day, he's one of my favorite rappers, I'm one of his favorite rappers, and we just do it.
I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living.
I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.
It's only artists who can help artists.
Oh, what company good poets are!
I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.
I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.
Genius everywhere is one. In the Orient and in the Occident the deep thinkers are kin, the poets are cousins, the pioneers of the spirit are the messengers of peace and good will to the world. Their works are the open highways between nations, and they themselves are the ever living guardians and guides.
I found a deep kinship between Mahler's recurrent attempts to confront all sides of life and to affirm himself in the face of his own finitude, and Aschenbach's dedication to persevere in the literary evocation of beauty. Exploring this kinship led me to reflect on many of Mahler's songs and symphonies - and particularly his great masterpiece, Das Lied von der Erde. The end result was a way of reading Mann that I hadn't originally anticipated at all.
