Quotes About Inspiration

Where there is money there is no art.

I've never been motivated by money. My peers and colleagues inspire me.

I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.

Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or for any reason but because I could not help it.

Great leaders see money as fuel, not a destination.

Write for the love of your art. Someplace down the road, the money, the fame, they'll come, but by that time you won't be thinking in terms of money or fame.

Money has never been a huge inspiration for me.

Lack of money always means a surplus of creativity, in the best case.

There were a lot of great things you could go and hear for very little money at the time [ '80s]. Mike Stern is still playing at the 55 Bar on Mondays or Wednesdays.

I made my new album 'Colour Me Free!' in a week with my own money.

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.

I'm motivated by the laughter, honestly. It's really not about the money or being more famous. I really love creativity.

Music is magic. Music does s**t that money could never do. Music unites nations and stops wars.

Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.

I don't (do) the paintings for the money at all. I just love to paint, even if I don't sell them.

I grew up in an artists community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any money, but they made art for the sake of art.

Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on.

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.

I don't spend money on books. I write them myself.

There ain't no money in poetry, that's what keeps the poet free. I've had all the freedom I can stand.

There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money.

I want to get enough [money] to take off the hardships of life and leave me free to follow the ideas that interest me the most.

God is always creating something new, He wants to give us new information and reveal to us new secrets in order to exalt us over this world