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Quotes About Creativity

Never reject an idea because you don't have the money, manpower, muscle, or months to achieve it!
~ Syed Ather
The man who invented slow-motion movies got his idea while watching a Scotsman reach for a check in a restaurant.
~ Anonymous
Humor works, and it's the best way to get attention without spending a lot of money.
~ Jerry Della Femina
It's not the job of the art to accommodate me and make me more money, make me more famous and get me more girls.
~ Mike Posner
'Swallow My Gift' is all about music being its own reward. I don't do it to become more famous I don't do it to make money. I don't do it from an ego-driven point of view.
~ Russell Crowe
I'm not the guy that wants to be famous and make loads of money and sell loads of records. I don't want that. I just want to be true. I want to be... I want to serve music. I want to be honest.
~ Damien Rice
Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
~ Quentin Tarantino
I washed dishes so I could make movies. it was never a way for me to make money.
~ Casey Neistat
I've never been that much of a money guy. I'm more of a film guy, and most of the money I've made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.
~ George Lucas
There's no reason for your imagination to be fettered by money.
~ Kevin McCloud
My mom has always been my champion. She was very smart and grounded. She said, 'Save your money. Pay your taxes. Don't put everything in one basket, ' but she let me explore and be creative.
~ Queen Latifah
I have 120 people in my payroll without any government giving me any money. We live off the tickets and the records I sell. That is very unusual.
~ Andre Rieu
If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
~ Robert Graves
I was born to catch dragons in their dens And pick flowers To tell tales and laugh away the morning To drift and dream like a lazy stream And walk barefoot across sunshine days.
~ James Kavanaugh
Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.
~ Robert McKee
It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.
~ Jonas Salk
Every morning the cuisinier must start again at zero, with nothing on the stove. That is what real cuisine is all about.
~ Fernand Point
Well, I get my subject on Wednesday night; I think it out carefully on Thursday, and make my rough sketch; on Friday morning I begin, and stick to it all day, with my nose well down on the block.
~ John Tenniel
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.
~ Peter De Vries
Writing is 90% procrastination. It is a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write.
~ Paul Rudnick
One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.
~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I get all my good ideas sort of at one o' clock in the morning, and I tried for a while to behave like normal people.
~ Hans Zimmer
Whatever I'm working on, I get excited. It does not matter whether I have done the same piece many times. I still can't wait to get out to the shop in the morning.
~ Sam Maloof