„My father was a proctologist; my mother was an abstract artist. That's how I view the world.“

„My mother groan'd! my father wept.
Into the dangerous world I leapt:
Helpless, naked, piping loud:
Like a fiend hid in a cloud.“

—  William Blake English Romantic poet and artist 1757 - 1827

Infant Sorrow, st. 1
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)

„My father was a violinist, my mother a pianist. I was born into a world of music... The practicing of my father's pupils accompanied every thought and action of my childish life.... Then when I was thirty [c. 1906], my career as musician was brought to an end by Vollard [art-dealer in Paris] who bought all the pictures I possessed, pictures which I had painted over several years with unbounded enthusiasm during such hours of freedom as I was able to spare between [music]-lessons to my pupils.“

—  Maurice de Vlaminck French painter 1876 - 1958

Zdroj: Quotes dated, Dangerous Corner', 1929, p. 27

„I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me, I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together, and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.“

—  Miley Cyrus American actor and singer-songwriter 1992

Reuters http://www.reuters.com/article/peopleNews/idUSN2234080420080422 (April 22, 2008)

„In the Surrealist period, I wanted to create the iconography of the interior world and the world of the marvelous, of my father Freud. Today, the exterior world and that of physics has transcended the one of psychology. My father today is Dr. Heisenberg.“

—  Salvador Dalí Spanish artist 1904 - 1989

Quote from his Anti-Matter Manifesto', 1958; as cited on Wikipedia: Salvador Dali
Quotes of Salvador Dali, 1951 - 1960

„Many young women of my generation believe they live in a post-feminist world, without unfair sex discrimination -- a world in which career paths are designed with fathers and mothers in mind. Unfortunately, that world doesn't exist quite yet.“

—  Sandra Fluke American women's rights activist and lawyer 1981

CNN, (April 17, 2012).
Articles

„Well, I knew I was an artist the moment I woke up in my mother's belly and, as an artist, I shouldn't have to give interviews.... in some parts of the world, you get scrutinized for saying the wrong thing about art and in other regions, you get scrutinized for saying nothing at all.“

—  Isa Genzken German sculptor 1948

after 2010

„I'm not going to tell you I am a good father. I have to contribute to the world. I have to teach [my children] how to contribute to the world. That’s our whole existence – to contribute to the world and make it a better place in some way. In my life I contributed to make it a bad place.“

—  Mike Tyson American boxer 1966

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/print?id=2083509&type=story
On his family

„In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.“

—  Jonathan Safran Foer, kniha Everything Is Illuminated

Zdroj: Everything Is Illuminated

„I think, How clever time works, overlapping people's lives at certain stages, and as some eyes are waking up, others are already closing, securing the continuity of the world. My mother and I were connected for twelve years. She also lived during a time I didn't exist. And I, in turn, must now keep living when she does not. And yet my father, who still shares the same wheel of time, is more like my parallel line.“

—  Rigoberto González American writer 1970

Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa (2006)

„I call myself a citizen artist, because one of the things I do is try to get my playwrights — especially my graduate playwrights — interested in the world. It’s about how you connect art to culture and community here and now, and how we are vital to the expression of our community...“

—  Luis Alfaro Chicano performance artist, writer, theater director, and social activist 1963

On calling himself a “citizen artist” in “The Artist as Leader: Luis Alfaro” https://www.uncsa.edu/kenan/artist-as-leader/luis-alfaro.aspx (Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts)

„We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.“

—  Pablo Picasso Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer 1881 - 1973

„Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.“

—  Thomas Paine, kniha Rights of Man

Part 2.7 Chapter V. Ways and means of improving the condition of Europe, interspersed with miscellaneous observations
Zdroj: 1790s, Rights of Man, Part 2 (1792)
Kontext: I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who have not only refused offers, because I thought them improper, but have declined rewards I might with reputation have accepted, it is no wonder that meanness and imposition appear disgustful. Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

„Cool how many layers of my mind there are to clear, each time I do it…& how different my world is then.“

—  David Allen American productivity consultant and author 1945

12 February 2011 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/36269718428073984
Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

„"Pray, my dear," quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?" — "Good G—!" cried my father, making an exclamation, but taking care to moderate his voice at the same time, — "Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?"“

—  Laurence Sterne, kniha The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Book I, Ch. 1.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

„The source of my work is nature. I use it with respect and freedom. I use materials, ideas, movement and time to express a whole view of my art in the world.“

—  Richard Long artist 1945

Richard Long (1982), cited in: Description of the exhibition Concentrations IX: Richard Long, March 31–July 8, 1984 at the Dallas Museum of Art http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth224905/m1/1/.
1980s

„I ain't good looking
And my hair ain't curls
But my mother she give me something
It's going to carry me through this world.“

—  Billie Holiday American jazz singer and songwriter 1915 - 1959

Billie's Blues

„It's not a pretty world, Papa.'
'I've noticed,' my father said softly.“

—  Chaim Potok, kniha Jmenuji se Ašer Lev

Zdroj: My Name Is Asher Lev

„Not a single one of the men who were close to me has ever had a direction-giving influence on my inclinations, strivings, or my world-view. On the contrary, most of the time I was the guiding spirit. I acquired my view of life, my political line from life itself, and in uninterrupted study from books.“

—  Alexandra Kollontai Soviet diplomat 1872 - 1952

The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman (1926)

„That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human.“

—  Markus Zusak Australian author 1975

Zdroj: I Am the Messenger