Martin Landau Quotes

Where you are defines what you're interested in.

No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.

I'm a fan of retracing the facts and absorbing my atmosphere and being influenced by it.

We are what we see. We are products of our surroundings.

In terms of work, I'm doing exactly the same as I've always done. It's what's around me that's changed.

Things don't happen in a vacuum, and artists don't make work in a vacuum.

I get inspired by everything - everything that is around me.

A man without scenery is completely disarmed.

Awareness is becoming acquainted with environment, no matter where one happens to be.

Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.

My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.

The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.

I admire a lot of photographers, but I feel very disconnected from them at the same time. I don't feel I employ any technique like these people in my work. I guess if there's any influence from any of these photographers, it's this: They were concerned only with beauty. Not with 'cool.' I hope I'm doing the same.

If you're sitting in a place like Martha's Vineyard, I don't think you're going to write a song about a ski resort.

I write songs based on things I see in the culture around me.

Something that has been every important to me in all my projects has been location, the place where they are installed.

Look around you...Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and watch the sky. Tell me what's happening in the wide world.

Others can measure their visions by what we see.

Genius is not only a what or a who, it is a where. It is grounded in a place every single time.

The 'how' has a great effect on what we see. To say that 'what we see' is more important than 'how we see it' is to think that 'how' has been settled and fixed. When you realize this is not the case, you realize that 'how' often affects 'what' we see.

Look in, look the storm in the eye. Look out, to the sea and the sky. Look around, at the sight and sound. Look in, look out, look around.

Just because life signifies not bare passive existence (supposing there is such a thing), but a way of acting, environment or medium signifies what enters into this activity as a sustaining or frustrating condition.