Chrissie Hynde Quotes

A lot of people have trouble putting into words what my music is, and it's because of where I grew up.

My music comes from my personal background.

You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.

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

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

The life that I live and the experiences that I have always affect what comes out of me creatively. I think that's what makes music real.

If you think a man draws the type of hands that you want to draw, steal ‘em. Take those hands.

That's what great art does - it inspires other artists to do great art, and that's what it should do.

I believe that the source of your inspiration is very important. I sometimes see this problem with photographers, even very good ones, who have drawn too much inspiration from photography and who, over time, have a problem forming their own identity.

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

I'm a musician, so for the most part I've always thought that the musicians were equally as inspiring to listen to - maybe more so, in some cases - in addition to the artists.

I think it's important as a player every now and again to play something that's influenced you as an artist just to expose the people to it.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.

I'm often asked by younger filmmakers, 'Why do I need to look at old movies?' I've made a number of pictures in the last 20 years and the response I have to give them is that I still consider myself a student. The more pictures I've made in 20 years, the more I realize I really don't know. And I'm always looking for something or someone that I could learn from. I tell the younger filmmakers, and the young students, that do it like painters used to do—that painters do—study the old masters, enrich your palette, expand the canvas. There's always so much more to learn.

Well, it grow together. It's like, first time I try to write a song is the first time I try to play the guitar. And so I can write a song without the guitar. But it really grow together. I really like stay with my guitar. But it just happen, is the inspiration come through man. Because, I personally, it look like, could I write a whole heap a tune, it look like. But I pick special tune to write. Cause a man can think of plenty things. Yuh know wah ah mean.

My hope is to continue to make new music and go with the flow. I think I'll always be creative. I want to keep making good music, put myself into positions where I need to rise to the occasion of playing in front of an audience, and continually get better at what I'm doing.

As an artist, you take things from your environment, and there's going to be a style coming out of your environment.

I don't think there's anything really wrong with influence because I think that one can use another man's art as material either literally or just implying that they're doing that, without it representing a lack of a point of view.

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.

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

I'm a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.

It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.