A spurious democracy has influenced both our research methods (I am sometimes tempted to define "validity" as part of the context of an experiment demanding so little in the way of esoteric gift that any number can play at it, provided they have taken a certain number of courses) and our research subjects (it would be deemed snobbish to investigate only the best people).
I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.
I find confidence seductive. Confidence, to me, is being happy in your own identity and not being influenced by others. I find that quite seductive because I'm a 50-50 person: in some ways I'm confident, and in some ways I'm quiet, reclusive. [I] like someone who can shake me out of that and approach me.
Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?
The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.
I've been very influenced by Inuit art especially some drawings and watercolors I've seen.
I had my dysfunctions, but music gave me peace and joy. I never felt in tune with the world. My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me. My art was my autonomy.
I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.
I recently realized that Television has influenced a lot of English bands. Echo and the Bunnymen, U2, Teardrop Explodes - it's obvious what they've listened to and what they're going for. When I was sixteen I listened to Yardbirds records and thought, "God, this is great. " It's gratifying to think that people listened to Television albums and felt the same.
I was influenced by the hippie movement in San Francisco and by the feminist movement, which had arrived in Paris.
I've been able to have broad kind of education and all sorts of different music and a lot of kind of films and also different styles and genres. And so, all of these things have influenced me along the way and I take a little bit from everything I do. I've been lucky to work with a lot of great people and learn from them.
I was an avid anime watcher until I was about 10, when I moved to manga. I think I am influenced by Osamu Tezuka's and Walt Disney's works which I watched during that time, such as Tetsuwan Atom and 101 Dalmatians.
Outside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry.
As designers we are influenced both consciously and subconsciously by everything we see around ourselves. Still, we always must try to avoid anything that has been defined as the latest and greatest "trend" in design.
I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.
You have no idea whether the hacking even influenced the election.
Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.
I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion.
We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.
I do think any modern storyteller is influenced by the stories we all grow up with and become familiar with, our shared cultural narratives.