Jan Brett Quotes

I am always looking for ideas, whether it is in art on the street or in my world travels. It comes to me randomly and unexpectedly.

Inspiration is around you. Like, when I travel any country, be it Paris or London, while walking on the streets, the architecture, the restaurants all inspire me. Inspiration for design could be anywhere.

I've always dabbled. I've always nearly written a book, I've always tried painting, I've always tried to make something out of ideas, really. It was never a plan. I never thought, "Right. First I'll get famous, and then I'll do a book.

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

I love to travel. During normal workdays, sometimes it feels like I have to bludgeon ideas out of my soul - but when I'm traveling, relaxed and unpressured, the ideas just spill out.

Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you've seen is important. Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

I don't know whether I have ideas all the time. I think I'm curious about things all the time; I think I'm always curious, and I think I'm always interested in whatever passes by, and I know I tend to think about things, and I tend to talk about things, and sometimes that takes root and gives me something to chase.

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

Every one of my buildings begins with an Italian journey.

I'm inspired by being in a different town every day - all the people I meet, all the things I see. There's no way of compartmentalizing everything in my head; whatever I'm taking in is coming out in some way. I think I love painting so much because, for me, it's so fast. There's not too much thought in these paintings.

I tend to write more when I travel.

Artists are blessed to travel all over the world. They see the trends before they even come out.

Being on the road is very inspiring.

I miss that thing I used to do when I first started out where I would just spontaneously generate ideas and try things and see where they'd go.

Travelling is really great for giving you tons of ideas, but it's really hard to actually record anything on the road.

I like to write about beautiful places, interesting places to me.

I'm a traveler and a vagabond and an observer, and the songs come through that. And that's just the way it's going to be.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

I sometimes begin a drawing with no preconceived problem to solve, with only the desire to use pencil on paper... but as my eye takes in what is so produced, a point arrives where some idea crystallizes, and then a control and ordering begins to take place.

Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.

Do as many ideas as possible. The right idea will pick you.