David Karp Quotes

I don't feel so alive if I'm not being creative.

My motivation is to be creative and have fun. You want to do something that keeps you on your toes the rest of your life and keeps you busy.

We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the use of the imagination, should come first – at least, for some part of every day of your life. It is a wonderful blessing if you use it. You will become happier, more enlightened, alive, impassioned, light-hearted and generous to everybody else. Even your health will improve. Colds will disappear and all the other ailments of discouragement and boredom.

When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves.

Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.

My compulsion is to create things.

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

If I'm creating something for myself, then I want to have fun.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant in their own head. They're thinking.

I think creating of any sort, whatever line you're in, is paramount - you can be an architect, you can be a banker, you can be anything - I think that when you create, you're closest to God and yourself.

When you do multiple things you love, it doesn't feel like work.

The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.

I get to do what I love and communicate whatever I want.

Relevance, for me, is about being creative and doing things that you believe in, whether that's music or acting or painting a picture, or whatever that is.

Making a movie really frees up the way you think.

I think if more people actually pursued what they loved, we'd have a lot more innovation and creativity.

Anytime I think about my office, I think about creativity.

There's a certain amount of pleasure in being able to create something and watch it grow.

I don't believe there's a cap on creativity and passion.

I get to play what I dreamed about since I was a kid. So, on that end, I love it. But I also take pride in it.

I want to be inspired when I'm working, and for that, I can go wherever it takes me.