Quotes About Inspiration

When I started working at Pictures On Walls, I'd been hanging out with Banksy for a few years travelling around the world together painting stuff, and then we moved into a new office and wanted to do screenprinting.

I love white walls because white reflects the light and is a great backdrop for art.

When we used to walk to school, I used to read off the walls, graffiti and stuff, everything. I used to write stories, but I'd never finish them. I wrote poems.

I wouldn't want to be in one room, 20 hours a day, 52 weeks a year, with four white walls and a stove. I think it stunts your growth as a human being.

There are bathroom singers, but I am a bathroom painter. In other words, my art will stay inside the four walls of my house.

I can't do one thing at a time. If I'm writing song lyrics, I've got to be doing the ironing or cooking or something while I'm working. If I just sit there and stare at the walls, I get nothing.

Poetry and prose can start a revolution, break walls, and ideas can build nations.

We have four million pictures of sports events and add 5,000 a week. If I was 14, I'd have them all over my walls.

I get a lot of ideas sitting in the living room staring at the walls or lying in bed thinking about things.

I've always been painting, even as a little girl I was painting on the doors and walls of our house.

When I was a kid I painted the walls in my room like 30 times!

I'm just inspired by how fast-paced my life is. Being around people that I love who are cool and inspiring, that kind of feeds me, but being in lockdown and in the same four walls, you kind of have to bring yourself your own vibes.

When I was a kid, all the walls in my room were papered with posters portraying Jean-Claude Van Damme, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. I think working with Van Damme was a great experiment. It was awesome!

My dad had a guitar that he gave me. I went to Walmart and bought a chord chart and hung it up in my room, and I was just trying to figure out how to play the guitar and put words with what I was learning.

Sometimes I feel like women of the world who are single moms and are working in Walmart are the strongest women out there, and that's what's really exciting to me is being all these different types of women.

In the history of photography, we have many masterpieces in terms of black and white books. You have Bresson's 'Decisive Moment,' Frank's 'The Americans'... many masterpieces. But there is nothing to this caliber in color. Well, I think I'll waltz with my muse and hope that I might be able to produce something on this order in color.

Some days I would be there at ten in the morning and wouldn't leave till ten at night, and the others would waltz in for a couple of hours and then leave, because I was doing that painting thing. And they were happy to see that being done.

Where would I be without Johann Strauss's beautiful 'Blue Danube?' Without this piece of music I wouldn't be the man I am today. It's a tune that brings out the emotion in everyone and makes them want to waltz.

The waltz is a very important part of my life. It's a very important way for me to express my positiveness, bringing humor to the world.

I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

Watching myself on screen doing a Viennese Waltz, I think, 'Ok, you're capable of doing more than you think.'

Journey gave me a magic wand, and it's changed the man that I am. I was able to muster this kind of courage that I never, ever had in my life.

The camera has always been a magic wand for me, giving me access to places where I could try new experiments.

Getting to work at Lick was like being touched by the wand of your fairy godmother.