Quotes About Creativity

I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.

Those movies, Decline I and II and Suburbia, are dearly loved, but they never made any money. I didn't even have the rights for some of them.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that.

I'm still around artists. I don't have anymore wall space. And I don't have the money to collect anymore, the prices are outrageous.

Look, Salvador Dali did not paint because he needed the money. No conversation about materialism and music makes sense. You make music and that's that, it doesn't matter why.

Speaking personally, I want my films to make money, but money is just fuel for the rocket. What I really want to do is to go somewhere. I don't want to just collect more fuel.

I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.

A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name

I thought you had to give up a lot for art, and you did. It required complete concentration. It also required that whatever money you had had to be put into art materials.

Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.

Anybody who can write home for money can write for magazines.

There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

Not everybody paints what the public will pay for. The method in which an artist receives money is nobody's business, what matters is that paintings are produced.

I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.

Canvas. J.C. Penney. $3.98. You like?

It's one of the great gifts of having so little money that you are able to make these kinds of radical conceits that you could never afford to do had you had a reasonable budget,.

It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

I look back on my life and it's 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It's no way to live.

If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be doing much more to take more people out of poverty.

I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.

I always remember my dad saying, "No one makes a remake unless they are trying to make money; there is no reason for it." It was not an honorable thing to do.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn't have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields.