Quotes About Influence

I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.

If you look on the history of art you observe how the most popular forms trample the rest. The abstract expressionists destroyed figurative work for more than 30 years.

Stevie Wonder doing 'We Can Work It Out' by the Beatles is one of my favorite records of all time.

Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.

I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary filmmakers in their category. I just see us doing some work.

Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.

Every work of art changes its predecessors.

So much of Hollywood is about who the people you work with are.

There is a wealth of knowledge to be understood from others' work, don't get me wrong, and when I do stumble upon others' work, it's not lost on me.

I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.

I was fortunate to work with Corigliano for a few years in the mid nineties. Meeting and working with him during those formative years was an important experience.

Do you see how Jerry Heller made it work? That is how he combined what we did to make the rap music into mass music. That's exactly how it happened.

John Lee Hooker became a friend of mine and I love all of his work. He was truly an icon. He lived the life. I miss him.

I don't know what it's like to not work; my family embedded that in me.

The Coen Brothers, Peter Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro have really made something of themselves and impacted people. I'd love to work with them sometime, too.

I try to put my own history in my work.

Now what I like is that other artists know my work and are interested in me or want to collaborate.

I don't know if Yves St Laurent likes my work but Pierre Bergé does.

Conquests will come and go but Delambre's work will endure.

India is once again ready to play the role of 'Vishvaguru' and work towards the benefit of mankind.

There's so much great stuff out there. The artists who've been most formative to me are the ones I've had the privilege to work with over the years.

I take a lot of inspiration from the people I work with, and having many collaborators keeps me challenged and inspired.

I didn't know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I admired their work so much and mourned their youth and work they would never produce.

As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the 70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.