Quotes About Influence

I've been immersed in manga since I was a kid. I grew up with this culture. So I started to think about how to compare manga to contemporary art.

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.

That the arts are corrupt does not mean that Christians can abandon them. On the contrary, the corruption of the arts means that Christians dare not abandon them any longer.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.

For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.

I don't believe that art makes people violent in any way. I don't. But I do believe art can show people how to be violent and that's much more dangerous in a way.

The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.

Whether you think you like Rubens or not, his influence runs through the pathways of painting. Like Warhol, he changed the game of art.

The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.

No person learned the art of archery from me, who did not in the end make me his target.

art is the pulse of a nation.

Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art.

If you change the rules on what controls you... you will change the rules on what you can control.

There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.

The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.

Creativity is the art of concealing your sources.

Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease - Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.

Any genuine work of art generates new work.

When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with.

Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.

Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings.