Stewart Butterfield Quotes

I would like to be known as an 'artist'. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. I'm interested in all of those things.

A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.

Your creativity before it gets formed into words and songs is the actual substance. No one else can see it, right? Unless you give it the shape of a song or a painting or whatever.

My capacity for wanting to create has never faltered. If anything, it's gained momentum.

Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.

If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer. As long as I'm creating something, I'm happy.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

Basically, I would be happy with any profession where I got to be creative and make things.

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist.

I still maintain several different outlets of artistry, like my music, photography, writing and all those things. I don't pigeonhole myself into one thing. I do all sorts of things, and that's so important to me.

I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.

Like all artists, I go through creative spurts.

My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.

I like to have a lot of different creative outlets.

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

I think that anyone who is in any way creative or is creating something, whether an architect or fashion designer, I think if you have the opportunity to create something that is fully you, it frees your mind and your spirit and gives you the opportunity to really find yourself.

This creating? It's my passion.

Just knowing you're putting something out there that could take on a greater life - that's our sweet spot. That's what we try to do.

The artist in me welcomes another opportunity to be creative.

What is important is satiating my creativity as an artiste.

I feel like I'm a creative, and I want to take advantage of that.

The musings are the same I believe the fire to create burns so heavily that I am never far from a guitar or a fountain pen.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.

I think everyone has the potential to be creative, but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them.