#flu

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s. ↗

— Camille Paglia

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Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements. ↗

— Paracelsus

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There is no influence like the influence of habit. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

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I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#beautiful #beautiful place #book #bunch #fur

The way I was brought up by my parents and guided through my football life by the influences of various managers means that in some ways I am black and white. ↗

— Stuart Pearce

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When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

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There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination. ↗

— Zac Posen

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I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

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I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#been #diverse #dylan #dylan thomas #edgar

I'm more prone to his '70s material, which is what I was around for and watched a lot. I listen to a lot of that stuff. It probably influenced me quite a bit. I'm more drawn to the darker, sadder songs. ↗

— Lisa Marie Presley

#bit #darker #drawn #his #i