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Musicians have also found inspiration from painters and their works of art. Modest Mussorgsky was a composer who is famous for his descriptions of colors in his music. One of his most frequently performed piano works, Pictures at an Exhibition, was composed in his efforts to capture what he felt about the paintings of an artist friend named Viktor Hartmann, who died at the early age of 39. After visiting a memorial exhibition of Hartmann's works, Mussorgsky composed a piano suite in 10 movements to describe each of Hartmann's paintings displayed at the exhibition. Anyone who listens to the movements can associate the melodies with what they see in Hartmann's paintings. While Mussorgsky was writing the melodies, he must have wanted to translate the stories in the paintings into his musical language.

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A novel or a play often inspires musicians and painters. For example, Felix Mendelssohn was inspired after reading Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, at the age of 17 and began to compose a piece of music to capture the magic and fantasy in Shakespeare's imaginary world. It became part of his famous work, A Midsummer Night's Dream. The Wedding March is one of the best known pieces from the suite. Marc Chagall, known for his use of dreamy colors, was also moved by the play and drew a painting with the same title, Midsummer Night's Dream. The figures in the painting recreate the dreamlike atmosphere of the play. Although Chagall and Mendelssohn lived in different times, they both translated Shakespeare's words and sentences into their own artistic languages.

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The English word "inspire" originally meant "to breathe in." Air breathed in has to be breathed out in one way or another. Kandinsky, Mussorgsky, Mendelssohn, and Chagall were great breathers because they turned their intakes into artwork that stimulates us in novel ways. Maybe, they knew we would interpret their works accordingly, noticing the melodies, colors, shapes, and the words influencing each other.

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"Street corners can be powerful canvases on which artists express their talents and reach the ordinary people. They allow us to join the artists' world of imagination while walking along the streets." Graffiti in Berlin- Drawing pictures or letters on city walls is called graffiti. The Berlin Wall in Germany was the largest graffiti canvas in the world. During the Cold War, the western side of the Wall was filled with graffiti drawn by artists from around the world, while the eastern side was kept blank. A part of the wall still remains and shows the difference between the two sides. Flash Mobbing in São Paulo- A flash mob is a large group of people who suddenly assemble in a public place, perform an unusual act, then quickly disappear. Teenagers of São Paulo, Brazil love to hang out in a safer environment than their home streets. Thousands of text messages invite teenagers to a shopping mall, where they enjoy themselves, singing and dancing together.

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Street installations refer to various objects set in public spaces. They are part of the streets people walk along every day. Visit Soho, London, for example, where a telephone booth lies on the street, broken in half. An artist named Banksy built it as a warning against the collapse of human interaction in the age of information. Buskers in Seoul- Busking is defined as singing, playing a musical instrument, or performing other forms of art in public spaces, sometimes for money. Playing on many street corners near subway stations in Seoul, buskers attract visitors from around the world. As in many other countries, their performances are often highly regarded as a unique art form.