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“In Holland, things were pretty stale for me. Even though there were a lot of good influences and a certain openness to music and art and literature, I just wanted to go somewhere less familiar - somewhere bigger.”

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Author:Ari Marcopoulos

“That's partly the success of my work-the ability to have a young black girl walk into the Brooklyn Museum and see paintings she recognizes not because of their art or historical influence but because of their inflection, in terms of colors, their specificity and presence.”

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Author:Kehinde Wiley

“Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not tell - they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and very precious.”

Knows Mind Humans Art Important Might Beautiful Spirit Desire Three Stuff Teacher Influence Teaching Dangerous Wide Mediums Burning Horizon Human Mind Great Teacher Sprung Burning Desire

Author:John Steinbeck

“I have increasingly become conversant with Pythagoras' and Goethe's idea of a primordial music, not perceptible to the sensuous ear, but sounding and soaring throughout the cosmos. Tracing it to such exalted origins, I begin to understand more deeply the essence of our art and its elemental power over the human soul. Man, being a creature of Nature and subject to the cosmic influences that inform all earthly beings, must needs have been under the sway of that music from his earliest days; his organism reverberated with its vibrations and received it's rhythmic impulses.”

“What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.”

Source: George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss

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

Trying Art Influence Boundaries

Author:Joseph Trapanese

“Science, Government, Education, Art, the cultural monolith may be said to exist primarily to exercise a paternal influence, decorously if possible, aggressively if necessary, to enforce certain accepted images upon individuals.”

Ifs May Art Said Government Certain Individual Influence Exercise Accepted Government Education

Author:Eleanor Antin

“What then is to be the lot of Rossetti's fame and influence? 'An amateur who failed in two arts', it is true; yet it hardly harms Rossetti or touches his standing. On the contrary, it defines both very brilliantly. The small word 'failed' is a small word and little more to artists who are forever going on until they give up over a game that must be lost. Every artist, when confronted by the immensities of art, which is life, must confess to failure. A failure is a thing very relative.”

Giving Littles Art Two Artist Games Lost Forever Influence Fame Giving Up Standing Harm Contrary Relative Immensity Small Words

Author:Ford Madox Ford

“Proficiency in art is a contract with your self and the empowerment of your self. Not all of us demand or even desire proficiency, but for those who do it's necessary to temper the influence of groups. And while some artists think history is bunk, the historical evidence is overwhelming: "In my isolation I grow stronger."”

Thinking Art Self Desire Artist Grows Groups Influence Demand Art Is Evidence Empowerment Stronger Historical Isolation Contracts Overwhelming Temper Proficiency Bunk

Author:Paul Gauguin

“Kenneth Hari's art work shall influence mankind.”

Art Influence Mankind Kenneth

Author:Pablo Casals

“The discovery I announce to the public is one of the small number which, by their principles, their results, and the beneficial influence which they exert upon the arts, are counted among the most useful and extraordinary inventions.”

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Author:Louis Daguerre

“I think the martial arts tradition has a big influence on our generation - we all read these novels when we were very young.”

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Author:Wong Kar-wai

“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.”

Art Enough Helping Together Influence Members Royal Lodges Drawn Together

Author:Marcel Dzama

“The idea of "making art for art's sake" makes no sense for me. Each area of my life, all the roles I play, influences the others.”

Art Ideas Play Roles Influence Areas Sake

Author:Ben Sollee

“My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in particular with the work of kasimir malevitch - he was an early influence for me as a representative of the modern avant-garde intersection between art and design.”

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Author:Zaha Hadid