Quotes About Influence

The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.

Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who created it - can remeasure the influences that caused it.

We rappers are role models.

Only tyrannies understand the power of art.

Rhyme written in graffiti xeroxed on blueprints, students influenced are now a nuisance.

I'm very aware of how much movies, literature and art affect culture. They are a reflection of the world around us and they are also a means by which we engage with the world around us.

I'll ruin everything you are, I'll give you television.

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.

The art of plucking the goose without making it cry out has been developed to a high state of perfection at the hands of the war makers.

In practicing the art of parenthood, an ounce of example is worth a ton of preachment.

Art is a delayed echo.

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.

Art is the only power capable of destroying the internet.

Thus all Art is propaganda and ever must be.

The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block...

The arts don't exist in isolation.

Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.

Conquering the world with words, leading the children like herds.

Entertainment and art have power. Our culture is molded more so by entertainment than any other influence.

Without an elite in the arts, we have no leaders, which is to say we have no vision, which is to say we have no arts.

Learn the art of the pitch and of messaging.