Quotes About Passion

I have a large number of enthusiastic admirers of my art. And they all sing a hymn in praise from the bottom of their hearts for my art.

Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.

To create art means to be crazy alone forever.

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.

I think a big problem with art school is that it makes people feel like they have to be interested in everything that's of high quality.

Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

Art must always remain earnest... Art must be serious, no sarcasm, comedy. One does not laugh at a loved one.

There's nothing as human as hunger. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art.

Don't try to be an artist. Find the thing within you that needs to be expressed. You might find it is art.

Dance is the stepchild of the arts.

Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Art is one of the sources through which the soul expresses itself and inspires others. But to express art thoroughly, one must have the inner emotions opened thoroughly.

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

A game of rugby is a work of art!

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else.

I, in the end, make art for myself.

When you feel that you can't fight it, you just go for it. When it comes to the arts, passion should always trump common sense.

I did go to a performing arts school, so that facilitated my creativity, though I ended up going in a more musical direction.