“People's creativity is very much alive, but when they get paid for their creativity, they often experience that as rather meaningless. Money as the reward for their creative process is very one-dimensional, a tremendous comedown.” PeopleProcessCreativityCreativeAlivePaidRewardsMeaninglessCreative Process Book:Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness Source: Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness
“Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of 'divine madness,' to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks.” PeopleMayFactsUsedTermCreativeDivineAnxietyMadnessPaidGreekInsecuritySensitivityDistinguishedCreative PeopleHigh Prices Author:Rollo May
“I'm very supportive of creative people being paid for the work that they do.” PeopleCreativePaidSupportiveCreative People Author:Matthew Weiner
“The secret of the creative life is how to feel at ease with your own embarrassment. We're all in the dirty laundry business and we're being paid to take risks and look silly. Race car drivers get paid to risk their lives in a more concrete way; we get paid to risk our lives in an emotional way.” WayFeelsLooksLife IsSecretRaceCreativeOur LivesRiskCarEmotionalPaidSillyDirtyEaseDriversConcreteEmbarrassmentLaundryRace CarCreative LifeRace Car DriverDirty Laundry Author:Paul Schrader
“You can choose not to be a performing musician. You can choose to just be a recording artist. But then you run into the problem of trying to earn a living and balancing the time that you spend working on your creative efforts to just getting the bills paid. You can go off the grid and live in a cabin and make whatever art you want and also provide all the sustenance you need and not interact with anybody else.” WantNeedsTryingArtProblemRunningArtistEffortCreativeMusicianPaidBillsPerformingSustenanceCabinsGrids Author:Mirah
“I've got what I want, and I've got the luck to express myself and to be paid and to do what I do as a creative person.” WantPersonsCreativePaidLuckCreative Person Author:Riccardo Tisci
“Whenever I visit Korea she [Kang] buys me lunch and takes me to a gallery. As if all this wasn't enough, she has incredible respect for translation as a creative, artistic practice - she insists that each English version is 'our book', offered to share her fees with me when she found out I wasn't getting paid for translating her publicity stuff, always asks the editor to credit me, and does so herself whenever she's interviewed. Too good to be true.” IfsDoeBookEnoughAsksFoundStuffPracticeCreativeSharePaidIncrediblesCreditVersionsBeing TrueArtisticEditorsTake MeLunchTranslateTranslationsKoreaPublicityGalleryFeesCreative ArtToo Good To Be True Author:Deborah Smith
“I feel so fortunate to get paid to be an actor. I pinch myself. I get it from writing, I get it from baking, gardening... I sort of open myself to the creative flow, which is hard to do, by the way.” WayFeelsWritingHardActorsCreativeFlowPaidFortunateGardeningBaking Author:Lauren Bowles
“The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist' - I hate that word. The only way you could be 'arty' was as a fashion photographer, because it still had a certain amount of integrity involved.” WayStillsReasonArtistCertainHateSupportCreativeFashionAmountInvolvedIntegrityI HatePaidPhotographer Author:David Bailey
“Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.” FeelsYearsPersonsArtistIndividualMy OwnCreativeTakenComfortableSkinsPaidDuesDrivenCuriousSoloCreative Person Author:Annie Lennox
“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.” ArtArtistVisionCreativityCreativeDesignGardenLaborPaidPainterPositive ThoughtsTattooFine ArtsBeing An ArtistFamous ArtistCreative ArtistsArt And ArtistsArt And CreativityInspirational ArtistInspiration And CreativityArtists And CreativityInspirational ArtGreat VisionGraphic ArtistCreative VisionDesign And ArtInspiring ArtArt DesignInspiring ArtistArt InspirationPassion For Art Author:James Whistler