Quotes About Influence

There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.

Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.

I truly believe the art's larger than the artist. Who cares about John Steinbeck? I care about the Joad family.

I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don't do that so much anymore.

You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.

there is no politically neutral art.

I think if you're going to make political art, you have to engage at some level. You can't just write about politics, you have to try and be politics as well.

I'm very much involved with Asian art and its theory and practice, mainly Chinese because that was quite sophisticated. I tend to look at that more than I look the Western.

There is no gap between art and politics.

If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.

Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

I'm constantly exposing myself to art and that inspires me.

We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring we weren't virgins, whether we were or not.

We're able to influence younger generations on design and art. They might not have realized they were an artist.

Today, because photography exercises such a profound influence upon the study of art, we tend to disregard the way in which prints continue to function as information.

I don't think hip-hop is a dying art form. I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form.

The poster art over the years, art with social critique in it, has always been trying to make that point - that we are larger than they are.

I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now.

There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power.

I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.

Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.