Noel Gallagher Quotes

Personal trials are the great equalizer that continues to draw public fascination.

Great trouble breeds great art, I think.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

Hollywood is a special place; a place filled with creative geniuses - actors, screenwriters, directors, sound engineers, computer graphics specialists, lighting experts and so on. Working together, great art happens. But in the end, all artists depend on diverse audiences who can enjoy, be inspired by and support their work.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

I love what Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh and Jesus all said - that love is really the driving principle of the creative act. In fact, they would say that great art is always inspired by love.

I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

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

I think that in Sweden and a lot of European countries, there's this whole mythology of the wounded artist: that you can't really do any great art unless you're suffering.

I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.

Great art inspires great art.

You don't have to have a great art idea - just get to work and something will happen. So that's pretty much my modus operandi and pretty much my principal position, such as it is.

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

The modern notion of art is an essentially religious or magical one in which the artist is viewed as a holy beast who in some way, big or small, receives flashes from the godhead, which is known as creativity.

I'm always pulling and really feeding off of my inspirations. I think most musicians do.

The concept of muse is alien to me. To speak of a muse implies there is a couple in which one person is the objectified passive element - there to help the creative, active, often male part of the duo to create. A muse is very passive. Who wants a muse? I don't want a muse.

Run The Jewels, me and Mike, and our connection and everything, came out of a period of time where I had personally lost everything.

I'm always better when I'm not doing well, that's when I write good songs.

Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do. Make good art.

Music breeds its own inspiration. You can only do it by doing it. You may not feel like it, but you push yourself. It's a work process. Or just improvise. Something will come.

I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country where dreams come from.