Creative Value Quotes

I never said that movies were struggling behind TV. I'm just saying that movies have a better creative cache.

All my songs mean something to me.

The film industry sees the writer as fungible: The thinking goes, As long as we have Brad Pitt and all this money, we have a great film! No, you need a writer with voice and an engaging story, or what you have is a bomb.

Nas' longevity comes from him having strong lyrical value in his songs, him being more like a poet and improving over time.

If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.

The personality and songwriting of Holy Ghost! trumps the originality card any day.

If you're doing creative work, that work should never feel trivial - even if what you're doing is for hire or lightly intended. Even the mundane doesn't have to be trivial.

I think mostly the commodifying comes after I've done something that has some other value to me.

I see little more important to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.

If artists do have ideas, they're often not great.

Real music doesn't always win Grammys

Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?

I think the problem is when people hear 'arts education,' they think, 'I don't want my son to be some painter that's going to be hanging in some museum after he dies. I don't want my daughter to be a struggling artist making no money.' People don't realize it's more than that. It's beautiful. It brings beauty to our lives.

When poems are no good they don't make any sense.

Ideas aren't a sideshow that make our factory a little more valuable. Our factory is a sideshow that makes our ideas a little more valuable!

You never know when what you do in the arts means something to people, and you never really know if you've been received well.

Without emotion there is no beauty

Doesn't the world need the painter's praise anymore?

The idea that music is art has been something we advocated for years. And yet it doesn't receive the same treatment as art in the sense of the value of what it is, especially nowadays when it's been devalued and diminished to almost the point that it has to be given away for free.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

What it is is that there's an intrinsic value in creating something for the sake of creating it, and better than that ... there is this beauty in dropping it into a community of your own making, and seeing it dispersed, and seeing younger, more talented, just different talent, take it to levels you can never imagine, because that lives on.

The morality of art is in its very beauty.

A lot of the time, I read something I've written, and I think, 'Well, that's competent. It's not exactly breaking any boundaries. It's not exactly transgressive. It's just a bunch of fake people in a room talking to each other. But maybe there's a value to that.'

People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.