Art Quote by Gordon Waller

One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

— Frank Gehry

My greatest influences are actually probably a set of different teachers. And these teachers, most prominently at my high school, but also a few…

— Reid Hoffman

It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.

— Mac Davis

I am very proud of my mother - she is one of the greatest influences in my life.

— Lydia Hearst

Pete Townshend is one of my greatest influences. More than any other guitarist, he taught me how to play rhythm guitar and demonstrated its…

— Alex Lifeson

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth…

— Ross Macdonald

There are artists in Belgium who try to imitate American artists. But it's like, if you're Belgian pretending to be American, you won't be…

— Stromae

I had met American artists and just couldn't believe their energy. London was always such a struggle to get anything going.

— Roselee Goldberg

Class is very, very fertile territory for American artists, and it has been for a long time.

— Rumaan Alam

Too often, if you look back through the history of representation and you take the work of African-American artists, the work is on such…

— Kerry James Marshall

I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi,…

— Natalie Cole

In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a…

— Jerry Saltz