Creative Effort Quotes

No great thing is created suddenly.

I've cried multiple times after posting a video. So much work goes into each video that I don't know how I'm still alive.

Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits.

What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!

Making 'Sweetback' took an exorbitant amount of energy and time.

It takes two years to make a good film.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

I am putting every effort toward creating my works from morning till night on every single day.

Design is something you have to put your hand to.

I'm not a machine that just comes up with records and can give them away easily.

We work hard on every film, and then it's up to the audience whether they like it or not. At the end of the day, it is the audience wish what to accept and what not.

Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it's good but then she's a natural writer.' Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.

I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term - meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching - there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

Movie acting may not have a certain kind of glory as true art, but it is damn hard work.

If I feel the labor and the gruesome process, that helps me appreciate the art.

A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what happened. It doesn't quite work that way.

No, and in fact I get a bit frustrated, because I'm actually quite good at one-liners, and I've had hundreds of them over the years, and they sink without trace, and I get very frustrated. Every party conference I really work on the speeches, and I always have two or three things I'm quite proud of, and no one ever remembers them.

Don't think of it as art, think of it as work.

["A Deal with God"] was the first single off Hounds of Love. I'd put a lot of work into putting that album together and I wanted it to have every chance.

Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.

It feels bad when a film doesn't work; everyone puts in a lot of effort to make a movie. The positive side to failure - they make me work harder.

I think being creative is incredibly difficult and painful.