Quotes About Influence

When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money

[N]othing is more easily corrupted than an artist.

The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed.

Art builds upon art, builds upon art...nothing is purely original. We're all inspired by something...or someone. It's a never-ending chain of ideas...and it's magical.

Artists, by their free expressions, encourage others to be free. This is the quality that makes works of art enduring.

You must write as if Dostoyevsky himself will be reading your novel, and Shakespeare will be acting it out.

I'm going to punch words in your ear holes.

The only real influence I've ever had is myself.

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Because the new the stories we tell, the art we make, the rockets we build, will influence the future that shapes our present.

The dictators, commanders or emperors who want to conquer the world soon realize that the world has already been conquered by the artists and their arts!

The best thing about Art is that the people who create it live forever.

If you just mimic the surface of somebody's work without understanding where they are coming from, your work will never be anything more than a knockoff.

For any creative thought to be contagious, it must first be worthy of a sneeze.

Most of them are remembered for their works, few are remembered in spite of them...for their finesse!

The visual arts will one day be king. The pop stars and celebrities soon to be forgotten.

Art corrupts. Absolute art corrupts absolutely. Please corrupt me absolutely.

With the manipulation of abstract symbols, an artist can send you information without sound, change your feelings and, sometimes, even beliefs. Artists convey the unspeakable. Artists inspire.

Kenji Mizoguchi is to the cinema what Bach is to music, Cervantes is to literature, Shakespeare is to theatre, Titian is to painting: the very greatest.

Artists by definition innocent don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.

My art teacher told me I'd be suited to graphic design, but I just couldn't, because it was what my dad had done.

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone.

I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.

To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.