Andrew Stanton Quotes

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

We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room.

Your environment affects you wherever you are.

I think that everything I've ever done at some point is part of someone else's legacy.

We cannot isolate a human being from the circumstances of his condition

If you look at any creative person's work, you can see bits and pieces of their influences. That's what an artist does.

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.

You are bound to pick up influences.

We don't see the Bible as it is itself. We see it in relation to a lot of people who surround it. And because we don't care for some of them, we think we shouldn't care for it.

Any creator owes a debt to past creation.

It's true that your environment influences how you write.

You boil down your influences to a soup, and it all informs you.

We are always influenced because we do not live in a vacuum together with our intentions. We are in a relationship with everything that occurs.

There's nothing new, even 'new' is inspired by something. We're all, either consciously or unconsciously, we're inspired.

People don't exist in a vacuum. They're a result of who raised them and who they love and who frustrates them.

The Great don't innovate, they fertilize seeds planted by lackeys, they leave to others the inhaling of the flowers whose roots they've manured. A deceptive memory may be the key to their originality.

It's as if tendencies that seem most deeply rooted in our minds, most private and singular, have come in as spores on the prevailing wind, looking for any likely place to land, any welcome.

The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.

I think I'm passionately allowing myself to be influenced by the things that are around me.

People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.

Our country, customs, laws, our ambitions, and our notions of fit and fair-all these we never made; we found them ready-made; we but quote from them. What would remain to me if this art of appropriation were derogatory to genius? Every one of my writings has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons, a thousand things; wise and foolish have brought me, without suspecting it, the offering of their thoughts, faculties, and experience. My work is an aggregation of beings taken from the whole of nature. It bears the name of Goethe.

Your environment influences your mindset.

No one acts or experiences in a vacuum.

The phrase 'nature and nurture' is a convenient jingle of words, for it separates under two distinct heads the innumerable elements of which personality is composed. Nature is all that a man brings with himself into the world; nurture is every influence without that affects him after his birth.

The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.