Richard Branson Quotes

If you enjoyed making a thing, and you’re proud of the thing you made, that’s enough. Not everyone is going to like it, and that’s okay.

I'm really proud of 'Moneyball.' To me, it's about feeling pride in a movie I made. I think when I'm an old man I'll be able to show it to my grandkids with pride. That's all I can really go for: making movies to please me.

We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves.

That's what I care about most. That more people are making and more people feel like they are creative.

I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.

I wanna make music that I feel proud of when I'm onstage, that I feel like I put my all into.

There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.

I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.

My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it.

I've hit a point where my big luxury is getting to work on the things I want to work on. That's my hobby. It's being able to do a movie like 'Chef,' where you don't get paid, where you get paid scale, but you get to do exactly the movie you want to do. To me, that's worth more to me than whatever money I would have gotten paid.

I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist.

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.

If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.

I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.

I've written a whole body of work that I'm incredibly proud of.

I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment. Everything is in tune: the voice, the type of music, who I am and who people think I am.

I'm glad I took the leap away from acting into going behind the camera because it's much more satisfying - I love acting and I still do, but it's much more satisfying to be able to make the stuff.

It feels so satisfying to hear a song I wrote come out of the radio.

We show people that anybody can paint a picture that they're proud of. It may never hang in the Smithsonian, but it will certainly be something that they'll hang in their home and be proud of. And that's what it's all about.

I don't want money to ever drive my career. I want my career to be driven by what I want to do in art.

I just want to make something that I love and people will respect.

I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures and just had more money.

I find my greatest happiness in thinking of those days in Homestead when I labored to bring a thing to perfection entirely by myself. In the evenings, I would go into the hills and look down on my work, and I knew that it was good, and my heart was elated.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

I think it's natural for a creative to be sensitive. If I'm in the studio and I write something, I think it's the greatest thing in the world; it's like my baby. I just made something out of thin air that exists now in a tangible form. It's the biggest thrill in my life.