Saul Bass Quotes

We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be.

Doing beautiful things is its own reward.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

I'm voraciously looking to express myself in my work. I love my work.

Poetry is probably the last gift economy. Part of the negotiation is to understand that you're going to do something you really want to do, so you're going to take whatever life comes with that.

I'm able to do my television projects and movie projects that I really want to explore. For me, it's not about the money, it's not about the fame. I love creating.

It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on it that causes pain....A day when I don't write is less happy. This is not discipline. It is affection, enthusiasm, adventure-any number of other words besides discipline.

Weezer isn't stuck in roles, so we just do what we want to do, what makes us excited.

I've always been rapping before I was making money off of it. Before I made a profit, I had always been rapping.

All any artist can do is please themselves.

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing.

If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

The only reason why you should do a film is because it creatively carbonates you and gets you going. If you're doing it for any other reason, you've lost sight of why you're acting in the first place.

A lot of times, you do independent films for passion because you may even lose money doing one, but it doesn't matter.

People ask you all the time, 'Why do you do this? Why don't you quit, man, take your money and go home?' I just do it because I love making music.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

For me, to be perfectly honest, the part of my brain that was stimulated by directing was much more exciting than a typical day of acting.

I, in the end, make art for myself.

I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.

I don't think art is a goal orientated business. I don't do things for the challenges, I only do them because I love them, I'm not really a goal orientated, achiever type of person.

I think as long as you're being creative and finding your own work interesting, that's all that matters.

I don't do this for the money, I don't do it for record sales, I don't really care about that, I just want to make beats.

I love the rush of being creative. I really think I live for it.