John 5 Quotes

I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear.

I get inspiration from movies, from fashion, then completely random things you'd never think of.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.

I believe in originality, primarily. However, it's important to know what there has been before to aim in that direction. Art history informs us. It informs our mind. I like to look at books, exhibitions, paintings, as a computer, subconsciously taking on information.

There are a lot of movies that inspire me to do what I do.

My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

There's always the influence of music, film, art and the other things that drive me. I'm usually inspired by my environment and whatever is making me happy or mad.

Without sounding pretentious, it's nice to always be surrounded by creative people who inspire me and keep my levels of creativity charged.

More and more, as I grow older, I find myself looking for inspiration in painting, illustration, videogames, and old movies.

We musicians often get inspiration from films and books or photographs, not only by music.

I like being surrounded by all the stuff that makes me feel creative and inspires me.

The first thing that inspires me is my mood, but I take inspiration from a lot of things: a rock song, a romantic movie or a specific lifestyle, like 1960s London and, of course, Italian 'dolce vita!'

I always look for inspiration, and the creativity of artists is an essential element to my life, my work, and my happiness.

Artists have always been my biggest source of inspiration.

If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will be poor in ideas. If he could take what he wants wherever he could find it, as Euripides and Dante and Michelangelo and Shakespeare and Bach were free, his larder would always be full, and his cookery might be worth tasting.

Nothing really came, everything was like inspired by something.

I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.

If I see a great performance on television, onstage, in the movies, I go to work the next day with a renewed energy and less fear. These great artists take me out of my life and make me want to go there.

I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I'll even quote. I don't do tributes to cinema.

I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.

If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

I'm always looking at other artists and trying to get inspired by different things.