Terry Zwigoff Quotes

Great art inspires great art.

Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.

The one artist who actually had influence over me was Bo Bartlett.

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

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

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.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.

That's what great art does - it inspires other artists to do great art, and that's what it should do.

I've met others [people] who simply responded to me, "You're Kehinde Wiley. I know your work. I saw it at the Brooklyn Museum [Brooklyn, NY] And I'd be honored to be in your work."

I'm usually the last to see my influence in other people's work. People give me stuff and say "Oh look, this guy's ripping you off," and I'm like "What do you mean?" Often I see the people that I've ripped off filtered into my own work. In other people's work, I can only see specific, tiny little instances of inflections stolen from another artist.

I've always had a certain fascination. It's basically paint what you know, and this is what I grew up with.

I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.

I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures.

The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled with words. They outlast all others.

Robert Crumb is an influence on how I draw, but not on the subject matter I take or my approach. One thing I do like about Crumb is that he's chronicled his age, his times, and I think that is what artists should do.

I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.

I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.

I really hesitate to say that any of my shows influenced other writers.

When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation.

I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given to work and think, than I really am by other writers.

You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.

I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to be, because my heroes were Goya and Francis Bacon.

I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.