Where does inspiration come from

Does it just pop out at you from the ether? or does it come thru mediation? maybe you get comes while looking thru magazines or photographs. Does listening to sounds like music or rain bring ideas? Or are you weird like me? Mine comes while staring at blank floors ceilings and being drawn to cracks and seeing images form in front of my eyes. Even soap scum floating in water swirls into magical images before my

eyes.

Do have scraps upon scraps of paper, card board, napkins etc filled with sketches?

I think the artist see's inspiration in everything, thats what makes us create it is a force we have no control over. Much like an impulse that compels us into action.