“Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.” WritingSaidTwoEndsCreativeFlowerDrinkTasteAdvertisingBrownBottlesAdsCreative WritingSlogansSpitCigarBillboards Book:The Good Life According to Hemingway Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway
“You know when I decided to become professional - that means to expose yourself naked to the world with the other creative minds - I said, 'I'm going into areas I don't know. I might just fall right down to hell and kill myself.” KnowsWorldMindMeanSaidMightFallHellCreativeAreasDecidedProfessionNakedCreative Mind Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
“November 18. . . I dig musicians, I feel they have the most to offer me mentally and emotionally because they think basically along the same lines that I do; extremely creative people. Music is Life. As Captain Beefheart once said 'God is a perfect musical note.” PeopleThinkingFeelsSaidLinesPerfectCreativeOffersMusicianMusic IsNotesMusicalCaptainsCreative PeopleNovemberMusic Is LifeMusical NotesCaptain Beefheart Author:Pamela Des Barres
“The enormous dynamic and creative, as well as destructive energy of capitalism... is written up with more praise and more respect by Marx and Engels in the 1848 Communist Manifesto than probably by anyone since. I don't think anyone has ever said so precisely and with such awed admiration how great capitalism is, how inventive, how innovative, how dynamic, how much force of creativity it unleashes.” ThinkingWellsSaidEnergyForceCreativityCreativeWrittenCapitalismPraiseEnormousDestructiveAdmirationCommunistInnovativeManifestosCommunist ManifestoEngels Author:Christopher Hitchens
“I have a hard time saying "no" if it's right. I don't say "no" to say "no." I said "no" when I didn't have a pot to piss in. I still said "no" to big money jobs because they didn't make creative sense to me.” IfsSaidStillsHardBigsJobsCreativeHard TimesPotSaying No Author:Jeremy Renner
“I've always said that the artist dies twice. And the first death is the hardest which is the career death, the creative death. The physical death is an inevitability.” FirstsSaidArtistDiesCareersCreativeHardestInevitability Author:Sylvester Stallone