Joseph Gordon-Levitt Quotes

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

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'd like to think I inspire young people 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.

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

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

The definition of inspire is 'to fill with the urge or ability to do or feel something, especially to do something creative.' There you have it: Jeffrey Bilhuber inspires me. I watch him make his magic, and I want to do the same. Those are always my favorite people, the ones who are so alive in the practice of their art that I want to jump in and join the fun.

I do sculpting sometimes when I have the time, and the first thing I sculpted was a bust of [Albert] Einstein. It still sits on my table and still inspires me. He was a person who triggered my imagination and my ideas.

Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it.

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

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

I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

Great art inspires great art.

I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

Tracey Emin's 'Strangeland' made me see that everything I have to be creative is inside of myself.

People always ask what my inspiration is, and it's never something that's easily explained.

I just wanna be an artist, like someone like Bjork and Kate Bush and Regina Spektor. These are people that have saved people, I think, by being what they are.

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

I love making music, but if you make something that inspires somebody else to make something, without getting too airy-fairy, you've contributed to the zeitgeist in some way, and that's just an amazing feeling.

I have been inspired by countless artists over the years, but there's also times when you just gotta make your own inspiration.

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

That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense; there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.

You can't really do anything creative without a source of inspiration.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.