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Quotes About Creativity

I just thank God that I didn't grow up with so much money or privilege because you had to create ways to make it happen.
~ Kim Basinger
Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products.
~ Jonathan Ive
Sometimes when you've got too much money you lose your imagination.
~ Paloma Faith
You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.
~ Amy Sedaris
Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.
~ Ray Bradbury
Everyone would like to be on Broadway, cause if a show works, you make a great deal of money and it allows you to write other shows.
~ Stephen Sondheim
When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.
~ Joe Murray
You have to make something good. Just because all the hot actors show up and the money is there and the explosives are ready, it doesn't matter.
~ Steve Zahn
Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!
~ Michel Gondry
It's a juggling act. Every time I get going on the album stuff or being musical, acting kicks in and I book a job. It comes down to a money thing.
~ Tinsel Korey
I never really made any money and it certainly cost me more to take photographs than I got for them.
~ Dennis Hopper
Theater is not to make a living, so I don't have the money pressure.
~ Dianne Wiest
You never get tired of making money, and you never get tired of a great acting gig, a same role that you can play for years, with wonderful writing and wonderful actors.
~ Peter Jacobson
I realized why I need to start a new company. Not for the money. Not because I'm 'bored'. But because a company is a laboratory to try your ideas.
~ Derek Sivers
As a kid I learned notions of art and notions of not having any money.
~ Vito Acconci
I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.
~ Tom Petty
I don't really do much social media. I just don't like it that much. I've trained myself to write very slowly for a lot of money so it really galls me to write quickly for free.
~ George Saunders
When I was young, it was easier to make films. It wasn't as expensive, there was more support. I found that I couldn't get the money to make films.
~ Thom Andersen
He[ Italo Calvino] always said it would be impossible to try to make films out of his books, though he hoped it would happen because that's where the money was.
~ Giovanna Cau
I've been making music ever since, but it was never something I thought I could make any money doing.
~ Gold Panda
Where there is money there is no art.
~ William Blake
A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader
~ Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.
~ Thomas Steinbeck