Quotes About Creativity

I've always had a passion for technology, photography, startups, and connecting people. Bringing those aspects together made me successful.

I want something completely new and different to happen, and lots of it. Stuff that makes us change the way we think about a market or the world. Something that inspires a new generation of crazy startups doing crazy things.

I was always really interested in startups and fascinated by what they were working on.

We believe that startups can be built anywhere.

In technology startups, there's a lot of winging it.

Startups are all about breaking the rules and changing the 'natural order' of things. So let's do that for Series A terms.

Cultivating a global incubator network would help people from all backgrounds bring creative ideas to market and launch startups that generate more jobs - and would also align to the growing interest among youth for entrepreneurship.

My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.

I am confident that as an artist, I will never starve to death.

An artist will starve unless he is near big centers of population. We should create many of these cultural centers right in our own slums.

Artists don't have to starve any more.

Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.

When I was playing bluegrass, I was living down in West Hollywood - starving.

I was planning on being a starving artist.

Whether you're starving in a garret or living in a castle like J. K. Rowling, I had this image of the author as a flawless, composed individual, serene in the knowledge they were creating art.

If you looked at my resume in the years leading up to Flickr, I worked in a dive shop in landlocked Arkansas; I was a starving artist. I just arrived at the thing I love to do accidentally.

You can't argue that you have to have art, and prove it to anybody. Why should I give $1,000 to art when there are people starving? Of course, that's true. But just because you can't, theoretically, defend the arts, or make a sensible argument for their preservation, doesn't mean they're not important.

In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.

I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writing. And they're not necessarily friends. The writer is the one I want to reinforce; the author would just feed on the reviews - so I'm in favour of starving him.

I was a starving artist.

I was a journalist, but I was starving. And I've written fiction, but I couldn't get a publisher. So, I was basically a very frustrated creative person working in advertising, and even there, I have a great idea that client won't buy it.

I'm basically a starving artist.

When you're a starving artist, you make do. It didn't matter that I didn't know where my rent was coming from.

I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic crisis, arts funding is an absolute necessity at the federal, state, and local levels.