Best artist & influence Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My first influences were superhero artists.”

“I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.”

Thinking Artist Stuff Wonder Influence Musical Musical Influence

Author:Jonny Lang

“Probably my favorite artists to listen to James Taylor, Stevie Wonder - I haven't gone back in a really long time and really listened to them - my first guitar influences. It's been awhile since I revisited that.”

Firsts Long Artist Wonder Gone Influence Havens Long Time Guitar My Favorite Really Long Favorite Artist

Author:Jonny Lang

“If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Artist Influence Direct Architecture Mechanic Japanese Architecture

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.”

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Book:The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell

Source: The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell

“Effective as perspective is... it becomes a deadening influence on an artist's natural way of seeing things once it is accepted as a system - as a mechanical formula.”

Way Artist Natural Seeing Influence Perspective Accepted Formulas

Author:Graham Collier

“The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery. Influence is like Scotch; it's good to know your personal limit.”

Knows Art Different Self Artist Levels Mystery Influence Balance Limits Art Is Tolerance Pursuit Delicate Different Levels Scotch Assertiveness Personal Limits

Author:Robert Genn

“The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work.”

Artist Influence Richness Fusion

Author:Fernando Botero

“Today the influences of your society pressure you to be successful before your time. They are pulling you down. They have pulled you down, you big, sweet, magnificent, young, potential artists. They have pulled you down so far that you are on the verge of destruction. Only you don't know it because you want to be a success”

Knows Want Bigs Today Young Artist Successful Influence Sweet Destruction Pressure Being Successful Magnificent Pulling Verge

Book:Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel

Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel

“One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.”

Artist Influence Italian Bernini

Author:Frank Gehry

“Emulation and imitation can legitimately influence one's development, but ultimately the artist must find his own path - and be true to himself.”

Artist Path Influence Development Being True Imitation Emulation

Author:Ken Danby

“Art is one of the few products that is almost a totally emotional buy. It is a mystery what contributes to a person's personal taste. However, being educated about the artist and his/her career may influence your decision regarding a purchase.”

May Persons Art Artist Decision Careers Mystery Influence Emotional Products Taste Art Is Educated Personal Taste

Author:Ernest West Basden

“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.”

Art Reality Artist Influence Abstract Intervals

Author:Edgar Alwin Payne

“The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and conspicuous faction of bards, giving way to the corrupt influences of a decaying general culture, seems to have abandoned all the properties of versification and reason in its mad scramble after sensational novelty; whilst the other and quieter school constituting a more logical evolution from the poesy of the Georgian period, demands an accuracy of rhyme and metre unknown even to the polished artists of the age of Pope.”

“Artists have made innovations in many areas... But whatever the nature of an artist's innovation, its importance ultimately depends on the extent of its influence on other artists.”

Made Artist Influence Depends Areas Importance Innovation

Book:Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity

Source: Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity

“At one point cinema and photography weren't treated as art. Now it's crazy to think they're not. The key question is "What is art today?" The most important artists of the last 20 years are Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive, because the influence they have had is incredible and they've changed the world. That is art.”

Thinking World Years Art Important Today Jobs Lasts Artist Crazy Influence Changed Keys Photography Incredibles Treated Cinema

Author:Ferran Adria

“Under all of the factors that make up the art world, it's up to the individual artist to discern which of those influences are present and at what time and what really serves the deeper process that is constantly running like a stream underground. Influence is incessant. Influence is a fact. But, carry a big shovel and dig constantly to clear away all the unessentials so that the origins of mystery and the poetic force of life can get into and inspire the work.”

World Art Facts Bigs Running Artist Individual Force Process Clear Mystery Influence Inspire Photographer Deeper Factors Streams Poetic Art World Incessant Shovels

Author:Paul Caponigro

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