Quotes About Creativity

Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.

Open source isn't about saving money, it's about doing more stuff, and getting incremental innovation with the finite budget you have.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Obviously when you're a teen you have no money, so you make, like, three outfits out of one dress. You're like, 'OK cut the arms here. Alright: New party, cut them to here.'

We didn't start Theocracy because we wanted to be cool like so-and-so and make money. Our songs aren't trendy, and our lyrics hopefully make people think about certain concepts in a new way.

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

I am personally happy for artists to make as much money as they can while they can to carry them through the times when they can't.

Writers don't need love; all they require is money.

Don't spend too much time planning, release early and often, some things will work, others won't, refine and move forward and above all forget the money, just make sure you love what you're doing.

If we can (generate) the right emotion inside of us, we can get ourselves to do anything. If you don't have the money, but you're creative and determined enough, you'll find the way.

Don't worry about the money. Love the process.

The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.

Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive.

Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.

Money is just a piece of paper. Money burns. You know what I mean? Money is nothing substantial to me. You know what I mean? It's the enemy of music.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

Some girls on the street don't have a lot of money, but they have the best style. It's not about being able to buy everything in the store.

Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the music.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

Your pictures would have been finished a long time ago if I were not forced every day to do something to earn money.

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

The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.

The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.