Spencer Dryden Quotes

New York is full of creative people, not only in fashion.

London is full of creative people - you can never say that it's not.

I grew up in an artists' community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any money, but they made art for the sake of art.

My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.

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

It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.

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

My parents were artists, bohemian, hanging out a lot.

I'd rather live in Bohemia than in any other land.

When I was in my late 30s, I lit a figure on fire on Baker Beach in San Francisco. It was me, a friend, and maybe eight people, tops. There wasn't any premeditation to it at all. It was really just a product of San Franciscan bohemian milieu.

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

From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's framing - that's what modelling is about.

I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.

One of my best friends, Stephen Sprouse, Bill Dugan, and I worked designing clothes, doing every conceivable thing. New York was a really intoxicating period for me, literally and figuratively. There was a lot of overlap with Andy Warhol, Studio 54, and Halston.

In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.

Great art inspires great art.

My sister's a musician. Everyone else in our family, it's either academics or artists of one kind or another. And those are the people that I think I like to hang out with, too. I think, you know, they're always interesting; they lead interesting lives, and I think they're important for everyone to read about because everyone is an artist in a way.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

I myself saw the great works of Western civilization for the first time in my high school in Lithuania in bad black-and-white reproductions on miserable paper. That was, for many years, what art was for me. But from those miserable black-and-white reproductions, I got something, something unmistakable.

I guess I'm drawn to artists and literary people and want to learn about them.

I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.

I've had so many different influences musically, even from people who aren't even musicians. If you're inspired by someone and you document it musically, then they are your influence.

If you kill the arts, you kill love, and you kill progress.

I was inherently slightly more bitter or cynical and that kept me from going to the commercial formulaic crowd. Also, I went to an art college and I did my foundation in art.

I follow the work of my contemporaries. I love their work.