Quotes About Creativity

I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money.

I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.

Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?

I think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories.

Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.

I've seen innovation come from something as simple as a resourceful multibillionaire who wanted to make even more money.

Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.

When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.

You can always go back to not making any money, and then you get the freedom. And I'm going to continue doing it, because it really is a fantastic sense of liberation.

There is no way I could have ever dared to make a documentary, much less have the money to make a documentary, if it was on 16mm. But, with the magic of digital.

It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.

You don't need money to look fabulous. There are so many awesome new designers, so many designers doing collections for mass retailers.

Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new.

If you give people unlimited time and money, they'll do things the same old way. But if they have to achieve the goal in a brief time, they'll either give up or try something new.

We were all crazy about music and almost all the money we had, we spent for equipment.

Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.

I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.

For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.

By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.

It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

Money is a kind of poetry.

I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.