Artist Quote by Ai Weiwei

I've been playing the Wolfenstein games since I was a kid, and feel that their outlandish sensibility has deeply influenced my own writing and…

— Roger Avary

I'm never really conscious of what I'm being influenced by when I'm writing.

— Jon Hopkins

In 2011, 'Yourself in the World,' a book of my writings and interviews, was published in conjunction with a retrospective of my work at…

— Glenn Ligon

It was very interesting time to be in England. Even at that point [John] Lennon and [Paul] McCartney influenced my writing. I thought, "maybe…

— Gordon Lightfoot

How my relationship with my parents influenced my writing, really not at all. My dad was a mechanic, my mom a nurse.

— Max Lucado

I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different, and I…

— Nell Freudenberger

The one author who has influenced my writing the most is the English writer John Fowles, who wrote 'The French Lieutenant's Woman,' 'The Magus,'…

— Elizabeth George

I've experienced being properly lost in my desires, and it's really influenced my writing.

— Christine and the Queens

I took photos from 1976 to when I left in 1993, primarily for Interview and a column I had called "Bob Colacello's Out" which…

— Bob Colacello

You see so many people doing quite nice and respectful work, but nobody like Warhol. Warhol is outstanding. I think he has a value…

— Ai Weiwei

Warhol came from an ordinary family and he had a profound understanding about capitalism and material culture. He was probably one of the few…

— Ai Weiwei

I don't think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent…

— Ai Weiwei