Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval method of working. I'll go... →
Edward Ruscha
I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it.
Work takes different forms. I can spend two or three days without completing anything, and it's choppy: it's filled with all kinds of... →
You do it for the highs, when you're totally engrossed and everything's flowing and whatever you want, you get. It's like magic.... →
Greg Rusedski
It is a big adjustment but I've always loved that old saying of Jack Nicklaus: 'I retired from golf to go to work.' That sums it up for... →
I realised I'd been spoiled at Liverpool. We were used to winning. In Italy I grew up as a person. I didn't enjoy the football, mind. It was... →
Ian Rush
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Salman Rushdie
Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines... →
One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've... →
The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and... →