Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes

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

I like to find an artist who inspires me and get into their world and challenge them.

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

Anyone in the arts has had an experience of seeing someone who they related to doing something and thinking, 'I could do that.' If you have one generation where you force its hand a bit, then the next one fills in the gaps, because it's seen an example of what can be done.

You know if I see a work that really I am very affected by and inspired by then it makes me want to try things with my work that maybe I hadn't considered trying before and I think that is the biggest complement that you can pay somebody.

I always hope that my music can inspire someone, the same way other artists inspire me.

I'm constantly exposing myself to art and that inspires me.

When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find myself short on and what I have to struggle to achieve in order that the work might live.

I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given to work and think, than I really am by other writers.

I look at a lot of artists. I'm inspired by - I suppose I shouldn't say 'inspired,' but it's not really influenced. I am inspired. Art comes from art.

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 was really affected by 'The Piano.' Had I not seen that movie, I wouldn't have gone to film school.

For our Spring 2015 collection, I was inspired by the spirit of the artist Francoise Gilot.

The more I get to know more artists, the more they inspire me.

Any director who's willing to be brave not only in terms of subject matter but also in terms of being emotional and moving you is what inspires me.

The one artist who actually had influence over me was Bo Bartlett.

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.

I can get inspired just off the energy of Soulja Boy, just his energy, you have to take something from an artist. Everyone may not look at an artist the same way, but it's something that artist is doing that's creating his success.

It present to allow me to ask myself questions about what I'm doing. I think that's what visual art does - it either reminds you of something or allows you to question something. I don't know why Robert Motherwell; I love so many different artists.

I don't believe in originality in art. I think we exist on this earth to inspire each other, through our actions, through our deeds, and through who we are. We're always borrowing.

I remember one day when Juan Gris told me about a bunch of grapes he had seen in a painting by Picasso. The next day these grapes appeared in a painting by Gris, this time in a bowl; and the day after, the bowl appeared in a painting by Picasso.

My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee . . . and the poetics of his paintings.

There are so many people I look up to and I try to watch some sort of video or interview every day, with an artist who does inspire me.

I didn't really think of myself as being a muse.