Quotes About Creativity

Inspiration is very nice when you get it. It's like being given a present you weren't expecting. You don't hand the present back and say, 'My birthday's not till November.' You take it and run.

If all else fails, I could go to a train station and open up my saxophone case and make some bucks. I can do "Mary Had A Little Lamb," I can do "Happy Birthday."

On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.

People tend to think that in order to start a new business they have to come up with something new and dazzling, but that's a myth - and it's often propagated by venture capitalists.

Great companies are built by people who never stop thinking about ways to improve the business.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Being an entrepreneur isn't really about starting a business. It's a way of looking at the world: seeing opportunity where others see obstacles, taking risks when others take refuge.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.

As soon as I stopped trying to think about a business idea and started focusing on what I'm passionate about, that's when it came to me.

Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.

Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

Marketing's job is never done. It's about perpetual motion. We must continue to innovate every day.

You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.

There is no such thing as 'on the way out' as long as you are still doing something interesting and good; you're in the business because you're breathing.

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?

The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer, songwriter, or find a singer to develop.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

When you find an idea that you just can't stop thinking about, that's probably a good one to pursue.

All art is a kind of exploring. To discover and reveal is the way every artist sets about his business.

If there's something you want to build, but the tech isn't there yet, just find the closest possible way to make it happen.