Matt Stone Quotes

All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

Inspiration and creativity, they ride right next to one anotherNot everyday are you going to wake up, the clouds are gonna part and the rays are gonna come downsometimes you gotta just get in there and force yourself to work and maybe something good will come out of it.

Once the inspiration comes, that directs where the perspiration goes.

That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.

Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.

All tedious research is worth one inspired moment.

Nothing in the world can be more exciting than to create something and see it work.

I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good.

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

I go into my workroom seven mornings a week. There will only be one or two mornings a week where it seems to be going well, but to earn those days you have to go through slow, slodgy days where your mind feels like porridge.

What makes creative people tingle are interesting problems, the chance to impress their friends, and caffeine.

If you're not frustrated, you're not producing.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, measuring, trying. Every time you try another angle. And sometimes that's frustrating, especially if you don't come up with something for three days.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.