Natalie Dormer Quotes

I'm glad Wu-Tang was able to inspire other producers and artists, but I would never want to be erased or removed.

All these actors who died before I was born, all the theaters and the artistic movements - all that stuff fills you up and makes you feel like you're the inheritor of all this information and of all its passion.

When I met Miller, for me it wasn't a question of wanting to meet him because it was Arthur Miller; it was a kind of astonishment that I could meet someone who was so deeply embedded in the psyche of my artistic development.

Great art inspires great art.

I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration.

Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.

You know what makes me teary? Goya. Goya makes me cry.

Crumb was such an influence on me. He's such a visionary, such a great artist, that he so shaped my artistic sensibilities on a certain level that I do owe everything to him. The way I see the world is largely changed by him.

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.

Any creator owes a debt to past creation.

Their films would probably be better if they'd seen a few more films, which runs counter to this idiotic theory that you run the risk of being influenced if you see too much.

Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies.

What are we blaming? Is this Vietnam? We made a movie, it didn't make much money. I'm gonna be really happy if somebody watches it in 10 years' time and really enjoys it.

Everything I listen to is influential in some way.

Just like zillions of children, album covers educated and informed me, and certainly did I later transpose organically, rather than by intent, those principles both in fashion design and photography.

Stanley Kubrick was a big inspiration. People accuse me of never using my own material. But when did Kubrick? You look at his films and they are completely unique... completely separate entities.

Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.

If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.

Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original.

I went through a pretty big David Bowie period when I was younger, and that has affected me profoundly in my life and my work.

Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.

I think Woody Allen calls it 'anxiety of influence.' When you're in your formative years and you watch a movie that makes you want to make movies... For Wes Anderson, it's Truffaut. I'm sure for P.T. Anderson it was Scorsese and Jonathan Demme.

Unlike life, a work of art never gets taken for granted: it is always viewed against its precursors and predecessors.

I see my career as not just music, but as hopefully an entertainer on all mediums, and someone who can have real influence and make great art.

I wouldn't be as comfortable with who I am if it had not been for Prince. I mean, my label 'Wondaland' would not exist without 'Paisley Park' coming before us.