All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.

“… ya can't please everyone, so ya got to please yourself Ricky Nelson (Referring to creative works, not other things)”

— Anonymous

“One thing about creative work is that it’s never done. In different words, every person we interviewed said that it was equally true that…

— Todd Henry

Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it,…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its…

— Tennessee Williams

If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family life and…

— Ayn Rand

For the whole consequence of evolution from blind impulse through conscious will to self conscious knowledge, seems still somehow to correspond to a continued…

— Otto Rank

If you bring your sexual impulses to your creative work... you'll be working from deep in the genetic code, down where life wants to…

— Eric Maisel

I try to live right. I always try to adhere to what I think is right, and that, to me, is the most important…

— Sam Maloof

“The point of dreams was never to be the affordable option, it was the one everyone else saw as a mistake and every creative…

— Anastasia Bolinder

At this point in my life, I like the security of a job, while still having time for my young son and to pursue…

— Chris Noth

We pride ourselves at Natrona - I mean, pride {ironically] - on developing a noncompetitive community. That's very important. The values that can come…

— Anne Waldman

The impresario function is about intervening with the company's more administrative management structure. It is about trying to establish a sense of boundaries and…

— John Kao

As I've indicated, most books go out of print within one year. The same is true of music and film. Commercial culture is sharklike.…

— Lawrence Lessig

I believe in creative work.

— Demian Bichir