Quotes About Creativity

It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.

Genuine art and business are the ultimate partnership toward catalyzing social evolution and well-being.

If you're in the idea business, it doesn't matter where you're from. It matters if we care about the change you're making.

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.

This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.

I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.

The enigma of cinema is gone because of the focus on business. As soon as you attach numbers to a film, you limit it. Films are meant to be an escape from reality.

One of the big failings of art schools is that students aren't given any teaching on how to survive as a one-person business, which is what it is.

If you can survive 'Saturday Night Live,' then you're good as far as show business is concerned.

The manager's job - the impresario's job - is to preside over the company's efforts to jam so the business runs really well.

I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.

The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do.

I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business.

Rapping's a release of the good and the bad - that's the definition of hyphy. You can't be like that, you can't get hyphy in, like, a business environment. I can be me. I'm energy. Hyphy is energy.

I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that.

Even for the people in the business who are real music lovers it's really about putting things in the right boxes, and my style doesn't fit into a box.

The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so.

Being a good designer certainly doesn't guarantee that you're good at business. It's probably more surprising when the two talents coexist in one person.

The whole film business was built on immigrants: Billy Wilder and Michael Curtiz and all these hefty lads.

As writers, we live very much in our own minds much of the time, buzzing in our unconscious spaces as we go about the business of living in the world.

I think it is very important in this business to be an individual

There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists, people can hang out longer.

I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business.

If you think in terms of topping, you're in the wrong business. You can't think that way.