Quotes About Creativity

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

It is our business not to supply reality but to invent allusions to the conceivable which cannot be presented.

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.

Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.

The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to the point that you think you've done a story justice, you're in the wrong business.

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.

Painting is a strange business.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

Emotion. Passion. Ideas. Simplicity. These are the big things that big business needs from its creative agencies. No one else is going to provide these essential elements for business.

Every business is successful exactly to the extent that it does something others cannot.

The starving poet business is no good nowadays.

Business people don't need to understand designers better. They need to be designers.

The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place

If, at the close of business each evening, I myself can understand what I've written, I feel the day hasn't been totally wasted.

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

When I make a mistake, it's a beauty!

The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.

Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.

That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.

Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation.