Creative Wealth Quotes

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.

Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

I had ideas first, wealth second. It only worked in that order.

A great artist is never poor.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.

All expression, all art, is an indiscretion we commit against ourselves. This is not an 'impoverishment' but an increase in wealth, for it is in this way that we make the short hours of our lives live on beyond themselves.

Ain't no money like music money, because music money don't stop.

Toil of science swells the wealth of art.

Nature does at least what she can to translate into visible form the wealth of the creative formula. By the vastness of the abysses into which she penetrates, in the effort--the unsuccessful effort--to house and contain the eternal thought, we may measure the greatness of the divine mind.