“The only real influence I have had was myself.”

— Edward Hopper

1941 - 1967

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prominent American realist painter and printmaker 1882–1967

Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet

El verdadero “está bien” me lo digo en el suelo, caído.
Voces (1943)

“I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel.
I focus on the pain,
the only thing that's real.”

Trent Reznor (1965) American musician

Hurt, from The Downward Spiral (1994).
Song lyrics

“[...] there is no real Jewish “problem” in England. The Jews are not numerous or powerful enough, and it is only in what are loosely called “intellectual circles” that they have any noticeable influence.”

George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist

Source: Antisemitism in Britain (1945)

“MGR has been a great influence in my life, I don’t deny that. But now I am my own person. I have evolved. Hereafter, I am responsible only for myself. Never again will anybody influence me to such an extent that all my thoughts and actions and statements are influenced and made in a particular way just because someone else wants it that way.”

Jayalalithaa (1948–2016) Indian politician and actress

Source: In an interview to Saavy magazine. The Life And Times Of Jayalalitha Ajith Pillai, A.S. Panneerselvan http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?205450, 04 May 1998.

“I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.”

Alice Sebold book Lucky

Source: Lucky

“We will never know if an advertisement or opinion poll has had a real influence on individual or collective wills, but we will never know either what would have happened if there had been no opinion poll or advertisement.”

Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) French sociologist and philosopher

1990s, The Perfect Crime (1993)

“I really want to improve myself and better myself, not just for me, but for anyone that looks up to me or anyone that's influenced by me.”

Феликс Челльберг (PewDiePie) (1989)

“I will repeat what I once said to Guillaume Apollinaire: "For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself."”

Henri Matisse (1869–1954) French artist

original version in French: Je vous répéterai ce que je disais naguère à Guillaume Apollinaire: "Je n'ai, pour ma part, jamais évité l'influence des autres, j'aurais considéré cela comme une lâcheté et un manque de sincérité vis-à-vis de moi-même."
'Interview with Henri Matisse' by Jacques Guenne, in 'L'Art Vivant' (15 September 1925)
1920s

“The manner in which I learned to read and write, not only had great influence on my own mind, as I acquired it with the most perfect ease, so much so, that I have no recollection whatever of learning the alphabet”

Nat Turner (1800–1831) American slave rebellion leader

The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831)

“I am an anarchist, a political and social Huguenot; I deny everything and affirm naught but myself: because the sole truth of which I have material and moral proof and tangible, comprehensible and intelligible evidence, the only real, startling, non-arbitrary truth not susceptible to interpretation, is myself. I am. There I have a positive fact. Everything else is abstraction and, in mathematics, would be designated as "x", and unknown quantity; and I need not trouble myself with it.”

Anselme Bellegarrigue book Anarchist Manifesto

Anarchist Manifesto (1850)

“The only real influence I have had was myself.”

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