Quotes About Influence

There's nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art.

I believe that art has incredible power.

In reality, however, an artist is a product of art

Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form to mainstream music.

Sure, the killer was my son, but I didn't teach him to pull the trigger of the gun. It's the killer on this TV screen, you can't blame me, it's the images he sees.

I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.

A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.

As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.

All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.

Money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art.

I wonder whether there is such a thing as critical art. I suppose there are portraits of people who could destroy you.

We're more popular than Jesus Christ now.

The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.

I try not to make any boundaries. I try to let all art influence me.

I think its sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young people into the theatre and expose them to Shakespeare.

My mother and father were interested in the arts.

Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.

My guitar player calls the process of writing lyrics based on another story, "filling up the well" when you can get inspiration from other people's art without stealing, more being influenced by it.

My main influence are the other members of the Royal Art Lodge, we've drawn together enough that we can't help but influence each other.

I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.

The point is that the arts are important enough to have influenced the greatest minds and talents we know. Albert Einstein said that if he were not a physicist, he would probably be a musician.

I really want to make art. I want to create something that's going to have a lasting impact.

Ironically, even the fashion in New York or Paris or Milan or whatever, or music in Berlin, or art in, I don't know, Madrid - all these scenes come and go. Everything leads back to Hollywood.

Art has such a transforming power. It can really take over your mind once you allow it to.