Quotes About Inspiration

Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.

The reason why I spend so much money for my journals is to press me to find something valuable to put in them.

Money is not the sole or most powerful motivation for many people. A higher and tougher test is to look back and see how you've made the world a better place.

Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.

I've seen innovation come from something as simple as a resourceful multibillionaire who wanted to make even more money.

When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.

I don't take drugs nor drink since 2000 and I must say that I don't think about it anymore, although like every person that was addicted and has money - I know that this can lead to temptation.

Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new.

Being able to touch so many people through my businesses and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing.

Don't do it for the money. Follow the path to do what makes your heartbeat faster. Follow your passion.

For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

Money is a kind of poetry.

Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.

Is this a great country, or what?

I worked with everybody, the best, and they actually paid me money to stand next to the people I idolized.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

Look, Salvador Dali did not paint because he needed the money. No conversation about materialism and music makes sense. You make music and that's that, it doesn't matter why.

Speaking personally, I want my films to make money, but money is just fuel for the rocket. What I really want to do is to go somewhere. I don't want to just collect more fuel.

I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.

A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name

There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.