Quotes About Influence

Ninja Turtles taught me how to meditate. They got me into martial arts. They helped make me who I am today.

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.

Art and politics have many things in common.

I've been very influenced by Inuit art especially some drawings and watercolors I've seen.

Art changes people people change the world.

I don't believe too much in originality... you learn art from other art and then looking into somebody's face or landscape is the point of departure to do your work of art.

What gives me hope is art - it's the most powerful weapons ever created. It's a weapon of mass construction.

Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.

Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.

Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up!

Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.

If a woman decides she likes me, it would behoove her to take into consideration that my art has had a strong influence on the type of person I am.

Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.

Art should be as inclusive as possible. That's why I like bringing the low form of puppetry and elevating it into a sculpture form, but it's still a puppet also.

No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.

O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart."-Helena

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.

Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.

It's an extreme to go from an artist like myself to a commercial artist with art directors looking over your shoulder, or any other knucklehead telling you what your art should look like.

Pop culture was in art Now, art's in pop culture in me

More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.

Diplomacy is the art of letting the other party have things your way.