Quotes About Creativity

Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or for any reason but because I could not help it.

I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living.

God knows I've had productions where there were actors in my plays who were making more money per week than I was.

I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.

Unfortunately, I think music videos are a dying breed because there is no money in them.

Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.

Part of the acting gig is when you're let loose some improvs and put stuff into your own words every once in a while. That doesn't get you a writing credit or more money. It just makes it more fun.

First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms.

Write for the love of your art. Someplace down the road, the money, the fame, they'll come, but by that time you won't be thinking in terms of money or fame.

People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good.

In Hollywood everything is formatted, everything is compulsory, so therefore we have to follow the law of benefits and profit and money, let us say the law of Hollywood.

Not looking really to do some big giant action movie that's just trying to make a lot of money.

The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.

The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become the best in the world.

Lack of money always means a surplus of creativity, in the best case.

Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time.

When you have no money, you need invention.

Artists need support, time and money to develop their ideas, and if people rip stuff off, you don't have to be that brilliant to figure out that you're ultimately going to affect the end product.

There were a lot of great things you could go and hear for very little money at the time [ '80s]. Mike Stern is still playing at the 55 Bar on Mondays or Wednesdays.

As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism.

The goal of Apple is not to make money but to make really nice products, really great products.

I will paint for money any time.

I made my new album 'Colour Me Free!' in a week with my own money.

It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.