Will Self

I am a regular, if not exactly enthusiastic, patron of my local bookshop. I try to buy at least some books there because I cling to the belief that it's important to maintain those businesses which put a human face on the exchange of money for goods and services.

English Author

Ryan McGinley

Most of the e-mails I get nowadays are from students who ask me how I got my start. In truth it's from having a really supportive family but also having a good patron who will help you - like financing all those early trips I took.

American Photographer

Quentin Tarantino

Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

American Director

Honore de Balzac

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.

French Novelist

Ezra Pound

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

American Poet

A. N. Wilson

Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.

English Writer

Allen Weinstein

NARA must provide security at our facilities to protect our public patrons, our staff, and our holdings.

American Public Servant

Michelangelo

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

Italian Artist

Guillermo del Toro

Monsters are the patron saints of imperfection.

Mexican Director

Fiona Apple

I want to be like the patron saint of reality.

American Musician

Used for someone who upholds the arts or charitable causes through financial help or influence.

Cultural Support

Often a term of respect, implying the person's generosity or contribution is well-recognized.

Honorific Title

Support can be in forms other than money, such as advice or presence at events.

Not Always Fiscal

Emphasizes consistent support to a particular business, indicating loyalty and habit.

Business Loyalty

Can suggest a personal connection to the place, a sense of belonging.

Sense of Community

Indicates a protective figure who advises, but doesn't control the less experienced person.

Guidance Not Control

Can also offer encouragement and moral support in addition to guidance.

Emotional Support

Reflects a spiritual protector linked to specific groups or causes.

Religious Guardian

Often pertains to a historical context or long-standing tradition in Catholic communities.

Historic Connections

 leaving nothing but pyramids of skulls in his wake. Timur may have been illiterate, but he was also an active patron of culture and the arts. During his conquests, he spared artisans and scholars, sending them to work on public projects like schools and mosques. Unlike many women in the world at the time,

History vs. Tamerlane...

 where the thing gets glued, the registration marks for the ink. I just love boxes. My grandfather was the guy who kind of got me into all sorts of these things. He would also supply me with tools. He was this amazing encourager -- this patron, sort of, to make stuff.

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 he described the clouds as the patron godesses of idle fellows two and a half thousand years ago, and you can see what he means. It's just that these days, us adults seem reluctant to allow ourselves the indulgence of just allowing our imaginations

Gavin Pretor-Pinney:...

 might just raise an incense stick to the God in the far left corner of the room what the locals don't tell you is that this is the God of War and one of his jobs is patron deity of the Triads I like to walk this route when I'm in Hong

Singing from the...

 of his diverse and rowdy audience. The Globe welcomed all sections of society. Wealthier patrons watched the stage from covered balconies while poorer people paid a penny to take in the show from an open-air section called the pit.

Why should you read...

 but fall slowly under the influence of gravity. Some of them stay aloft due to upward convection from the sun-heated ground, but most are in a state of slow, balletic descent. "Clouds are the patron goddesses of idle fellows,"

How did clouds get their...

 but his powerful patrons managed to have his sentence revoked. Some scholars have suggested that Artemisia started the painting while the trial was still underway. Many have debated whether the rape influenced her work.

Artemisia Gentileschi:...

 than collective production. A few brave painters, who for many centuries, had been paid by the square foot, successfully petitioned their patrons to pay them on the basis of merit instead. Within a single generation,

Is there a difference...

 Each city was dedicated to a patron deity, considered the city’s founder. The largest and most important building in the city was this patron god’s the ziggurat, a temple designed as a stepped pyramid.

The rise and fall of...

 the story tells us of a patron deity of Kings that sets up the world that makes a sacrifice of his own blood and of a series of animals at for trees representing the four corners of the

Patron