Walking quotes to inspire art

Art inspired notes with me on the Francigena, (2014)

Here are some of my favourite quotes on walking as they reflect my own thoughts on the subject. I also feel there are thoughts here to inspire art. The first two are my own quotes.

´To walk is to live.´ Emma Arthur

´Walking allows us to experience and reflect on the beauty of individual moments.´ Emma Arthur

“Walking is man's best medicine.“ Hippocrates

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.” Steven Wright

“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.” John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It's just one of those things I do. I walk and I walk and sooner or later something comes to me, something to make me feel less like jumping off a building.” ― Jim Butcher, Storm Front

“But the beauty is in the walking -- we are betrayed by destinations.” Gwyn Thomas

“Walking articulates both physical and mental freedom.” Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.” Wendell Berry, Remembering

“If you seek creative ideas go walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.” Raymond I. Myers

“If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.” Charles Dickens

“[Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the wayside.” Elizabeth von Arnim, The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen

The photograph was taken by my partner while walking on part of the Francigena.

I worked on several photos digitally to create a collaged image and then wrote some of our notes on top.