My Inspiration: new ideologies

To create new innovative dishes, I have to break what is natural in cooking..... It can be "presentation", "tools", "techniques" and now... "new ideologies"

I'm actually not sure "ideology" is the right vocabulary for this, it could be "vision", "nature" , "mechanism" "phylosophy" or some other words. Please read through what I say as follows and leave a comment if you think there're better words to describe what I'm trying to say here.....

So, let me start.... "new ideologies", I think we "chefs" have our common natures. When we get inspired by architectures, painting, pictures or something, we try to express the inspirations into cooking. I think it's our natures, or would call this chef's "ideologies".

Well, between chefs there're huge differences without saying. I'm sure cooking thoughts or approach between sushi chefs and Spanish chefs have huge differences. And I always feel savory chefs and pastry chefs are very different in cooking approaches. I would say when savory chefs make dessert, it comes out slightly different from what pastry chefs make. It's kinda hard to explain in words, but some people say pastry chef take more mathematical approach in cooking.

I've been cooking over 10 yrs and pretty much this is the only profession I know. And I've been thinking what inspires other professionals (especially artists) in daily life and how they express the inspirations in their own art fields. their thought, instincts, natures... ideologies.... if I could learn those, they must give new dimensions in my culinary creativity.

Say profession "stand up comedian", I had the opportunity to talk with one(American) in Tokyo recently, I had a very interesting conversations. What their natures and ideologies? He listens people's stories 24/7 anywhere anytime to pick up funny stories from streets. And he makes the story into 15mins long from even small piece of scratches. On the stage he's being very attensive to the audiences and oftenly pick up some audiences and make fun of them. Obviously to do that, he has to be super flexible at any cases and obviously those guys has to be smart!!

And when I was in Barcelona, I went to see Antoni Gaudi's artistic architectures. AMAZING!! Those blew me away!! He has his own original signature style in his design. Wikipedia says as follows:

"Gaudí, throughout his life, studied nature's angles and curves and incorporated them into his designs and mosaics. Instead of relying on geometric shapes, he mimicked the way men stand upright. The hyperboloids and paraboloids he borrowed from nature were easily reinforced by steel rods and allowed his designs to resemble elements from the environment. Gaudí was so inspired by nature, he says, because:

Also the following is the good link showing with pictures how Gaudi uses natures as a metaphor in his design .

So... I wonder how painter, graphic artist, fashion designer and other artists get inspired like Gaudi or ???. Now I want to have further opportunities to talk with other professionals to learn about their thoughts and inspirations. I have no ideas how musicians make songs, how magician comes up new tricks, how movie producer comes up the ideas.... If I can learn psychology from psychologist and therapist, It maybe help coming up new dining concepts! I want to learn those, not just as a chef, but to be mature as a human. Because I always feel inmature as one man... well, that's another story!