Quotes About Creativity

To me, success has already happened. I get to make records and live doing that. Success is that.

One of the best things about being in a band for so long and having any level of success is the opportunity to go and play in different creative sandboxes.

I know this is a weird niche, but a lot of my female friends have these strange stories where there their dads have seen the small successes of their daughters and have decided that they are creative as well.

One thing I don't understand is how people want you to replicate your past successes. Being an artist should be about freedom and not just becoming one thing, because I think that's terrible and boring.

I've had a lot of successes as a songwriter, and I really have nothing to prove in that arena, so I'm just excited about the next challenge of pursuing this artist thing.

I ended up doing three very complicated off-Broadway plays that, in certain ways, were not successes in that they were received in a complicated way. But for me they were successes because they forced me to act without singing, which I'd never done before.

In general, I never think it is a good idea to try to recreate past successes. You have to strike out on your own, for better or worse.

All the big successes of my career have been ideas that, on paper, you think, 'Well nobody's going to go for this because that genre is so dead.'

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

A successful designer must be a gambler.

I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.

Part of the elasticity that you need, in order to continue to try to create, is the foregone conclusion that not all of it is going to be fabulously successful. But it's all going to be part of a long lifetime body of experimentation.

A lot of fashion photographers will do the same sort of image for many years; it's easier to be successful if you do that.

The kids that are different and out there and expressive and are bold with those choices, those are the people that grow up to be people we all want to hang out with, that become celebrities or become really successful in what they do because they believe in who they are.

I'm going to keep making films I believe in. Whether I am successful or not is besides the point.

Successful companies obviously have people with ideas and energy.

I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.

So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.

At the end of the day, what's going to make bitcoin successful is more people making more interesting things, just like the beginning of the Internet.

For me to do a project - I have a pretty successful solo career, so - for me to even want to do Primus, it had to be a creative step forward.

It's not that I don't want to do different films. The non-mainstream stuff that I did started to get successful... But for an industry which runs essentially on money, they do put you in a box.

It costs so much to promote something these days that almost always safety is the preferred option, reference back to things which have been successful in the past. Also, people are simply not given the time to develop and find themselves and their audience as we were.

An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.

I feel that one thing that a businessman can learn is do not follow a path that has already been successful. You will never be a path-breaker then.