Quotes about Creativity
Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.
— John Keats
If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.
— John Lennon
There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.
— John Updike
Always have one artistic thing that is pure, at least one thing, where you don't compromise. You can do other things to make money, but have one pure area.
— James Franco
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
— Oscar Wilde
Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
— Bill Gates
We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.
— Walt Disney
A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we can (generate) the right emotion inside of us, we can get ourselves to do anything. If you don't have the money, but you're creative and determined enough, you'll find the way.
— Tony Robbins
You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
— Seth Godin
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.
— Jon Gordon