Quotes About Creativity

If Lady Gaga didn't put on all those outfits, she probably wouldn't have made it in show business. She put a show behind her voice.

There are no rules in the entertainment business.

Inspiration and genius -one and the same.

Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.

If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.

It would be wonderful if ideas could be the new rock 'n roll

It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.

You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.

If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.

Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman.

For me photography is not an intellectual process. It is a visual one.... Whether we like it or not, we are involved in a sensual business.

I don't write songs for myself anymore. I only write songs on assignment. It's purely a business, but it is still so important to me emotionally.

Keep an idea log where you write everything down, even the bad ideas.

Entrepreneurial business favours the open mind. It favours people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so.

Picasso obviously viewed his art as a business, which it was. I view my business as an art, which it is.

The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all.

Didn't want to be a star, wanted just to play guitar in this cockamamie business.

What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.

No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.

You don't need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.

Launching a business is essentially an adventure in problem-solving.

If you're too focused on your current business, it's hard to change and concentrate on innovating.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

My business is making people, especially children, happy.