Quotes About Influence

Your cameras can't control the minds of those who know, that you'll even sell your soul just to get a story sold.

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

Should one ask: 'how do I cope with a well-ordered enemy host about to attack me?' I reply: seize something he cherishes and he will conform to your desires.

The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts

The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.

I have no doubt about a photographer in particular and a digital artist in general having become contemporary icons.

The future belongs to us. I think that art is a force that can change the world.

MFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood.

I don't believe in originality in art. I think we exist on this earth to inspire each other, through our actions, through our deeds, and through who we are. We're always borrowing.

The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting.

I got a PBS mind in an MTV world.

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.

You can't control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.

Artists everywhere steal mercilessly all the time and I think this is healthy.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department.

Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.

Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it's in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one's own.

The almighty dollar and the lust for world wide fame, slowly killed tradition, and for that someone should hang.

Advertising is the art of persuasion.

The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.