Been Quote by Dustin Yellin

Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.

— 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

As for the writers who have influenced me they are many. Hemingway, Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, William Goldman, Flannery O'Conner, Carson…

— Joe R. Lansdale

I can't say if I have influenced anything really, maybe a few artists but at the end of the day we are all influenced…

— Mick Harris

I've been influenced by someone or [English artists] work. I mentioned Hans Coper as an example.

— Warren MacKenzie

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

I have been influenced by many different artists at many different stages of my life. Starting out, it was people like Elton John, Billy…

— Sara Bareilles

At a very young age, I was influenced enormously by Julio Cortazar or Carlos Fuentes. In that literature, there's always an exploration of different…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

There are a number of contemporary playwrights whom I admire enormously, but that's not at all the same thing as being influenced.

— Edward Albee

Leonard Bernstein was probably the most significant formative influence on me - he was such an encompassing musician. I spent my teenage years absorbing…

— Jason Robert Brown

As a writer, I've always been the sum total of my influences, and those are all over the spectrum: Rachmaninov, the Who, the Beatles,…

— Eric Carmen

I think probably I've been influenced by Chekhov and Walt Disney, if you see what I mean.

— Tom Stoppard