Quotes About Inspiration

The first time I saw Douglas Sirk was in college. I didn't encounter him on the late, late, late show like a lot of people; people a little older than me, maybe. But I saw him already as someone to take special note of in an academic context in college. I was immediately in a state of visual splendor.

My overall plan for Instagram is to continue to create a tool that will inspire people to use their visual voice.

Hearing about a visual artist's approach can change the way you think about songwriting.

It's been hard for me to nail visual language and personal style because I like so many different things.

I'm very visual when I write and get a lot of inspiration from scrolling through Tumblr or Pinterest. I have picture folders to most of the songs I've written. It would be cool to release it as a book one day!

I couldn't do a record without knowing I'll translate it into something visual.

I haven't had the opportunity to study visual art, but it was always my first love when it came to artistic expression. I started drawing and experimenting with visual art when I was 5.

I've always been interested in visual art and used to be much more into theater when I was younger, or more knowledgeable about what's going on. And literature has played a big part in my life.

I love visual mediums, and I've always painted and drawn.

I'm a very visual thinker, so the characters are running through my head, doing what they're doing when I'm writing them. And there'll be moments where I'll just kind of throw a look off to the side as if I'm talking to one of the characters. It's always been something that I've had with me since I was a little kid.

I'm inspired by visual stimulation.

The visual of Deadpool was very informed by Spider-Man.

As a director, I start with the visual.

Usually, I think of the song, and then the video plays out in my head as I'm writing the song. I started rapping to become a comedian, so I'm certainly thinking about the visual component of things beyond just the music most of the time.

I'm a Banksy fan. I'm also a fan of Chris Hobe, Mister Totem, Drew Wootten, Mad Clout, Hense and Sever, in visual and street art. And Jonathan Mannion and Shane Nash in photography.

Well, I have to have some type of visual in my head to finish a song. I can't finish a song if I can't see anything.

We actually make all of our own music videos. Often we come up with the visual concepts at the same time as writing the music.

I started as a visual artist and I've always dealt with music in that same sort of way.

When you write music that you are very passionate about, being able to bring the visual aspect of it alive with the music is what ties everything together.

Flowers are just a natural thing in my life. I gravitate towards them so much, just in every video that I do, every visual, for some reason, flowers are incorporated.

John Cage is someone I got into as a visual artist, before I even knew his music. I don't think a lot of people even know that he does visual art.

I've been doing visual stuff for as long as I've been making records; in fact, for longer.

Music doesn't have to sit within the confines of pop structure, you can really make stuff that's more visual.

When I first became really interested in building furniture, I went to Toys-R-Us, and spent $200 on Transformers toys. By taking the toys apart and studying how they moved, I was able to figure out how to hide a table leaf, what type of contraption I'd need to slide it under the table. I'm a really visual learner.