Bliss Carman Quotes

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

All any artist can do is please themselves.

I don't really make movies because I want to see my face on a billboard or because I want to get good reviews or have a big box office. That doesn't really matter to me at all.

You are carving out a story. You and your colleagues are trying to make something that is bigger than yourself. Although it can be a scary experience because you're putting your work out on the line, it's also incredibly rewarding because a lot of it comes from you.

I don't want to say work is who I am, but some people feel more centered and more whole when they're producing and creating.

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

It just seems there's better things to do in your life than be on television if it's not interesting, if it's not challenging, if it's not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I'll stop making television.

It's liberating and rewarding to see your own ideas coming to fruition.

I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.

I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that.

After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.

I've never worked to make money. I understand we've got to eat and all that, but I never said I want to be a multimillionaire or a billionaire. To me, that's of no significance. I work to have the accomplishment.

When I get to do whatever I want, I'm perfectly happy. I've found that the best scenario is that I just do what I do, and if somebody wants to be part of it, they should work as a conduit for what vision I have. They should help me complete the universe.

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

I don't have any ambition to make lots of money or win an Oscar or anything like that. It's not about that for me.

I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.

I've never really cared if I was famous for my music. It was just something I had to do.

Do what you love, and do it well - that's much more meaningful than any metric.

I want to feel creative when I'm working. I don't want to just work for the sake of working.

If I don't create, I don't exist.

You create content because you love it, not necessarily because you're looking for fame or know what it will potentially lead to.

I think the biggest reward is not physical. I rather obtain things spiritually. I mean, it's so cool to be acknowledged by the public, but that's not my goal. That's not why I make music. I would do it anyway, if there was no reward.

Creative satisfaction is highly underrated. When you don't have it, the money doesn't spend nearly as well.

Personally, I experience success when I enjoy what I'm doing. I love the creative process, even if the end result isn't embraced by anyone else.

I try not to think about the idea of reaching more and more people, because once you get in that mindset, I think you lose the point of why you're doing it in the first place. Still, the best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way.