Or is it the composition, a dance of perfect balance, hanging out in it's own way, as it relates to its environment. Yes I have been inspired many times from visiting galleries to look at art. Music is also a source of inspiration. Different for different moods. Maybe its notes of the oboe or violin, that evoke images of another time, another place.
Music ignites the imagination.
It creates images in the mind, evokes a mood, draws out something from deep down inside us that is too delicious to try to understand with our logical thinking mind. It exists on its own, without the need for further understanding and intellectualizing. To do so would be to dilute it, to minimize it and take away from its magic. Inspiration is magic, it's that spark that fuels our passion, It is what hauls us out of our dull complacency and robot like behaviour.