Quotes About Passion

He told her: - I'm gaunnae fuck you like you've never been fucked in your life. He was right. She'd never been fucked that badly, either before or since.

You're not sick you're just in love.

You can't write a song out of thin air you have to feel and know what you are writing about.

No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him.

Artists thrive on suffering.

Who loves — lives, who lives - works, and who works has some bread.

I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]

He had never believed that spirituality had to be anemic or aesthetic.

No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.

L'arte è fatta per coloro che si sente indegno senza di essa.

It was only a remote portion of his mind that heard and answered the girl. The rest of him was soaking up her beauty with the passionate thirst of a man who has drunk too long at a celibate well.

All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.

Per me [la creazione] è come una giornata d'uragano quando la tramontana s'abbatte fischiando dai monti. L'arte per me è un tormento, angoscioso quando il lavoro va male, estasiante quando va bene: ma sempre mi possiede senza scampo. Al termine della mia giornata, sono un guscio vuoto: tutto ciò che v'era in me, è passato nel marmo o nell'affresco. Quindi non mi resta più nulla da dare altrove.

He felt extremely friendly to them all; they too knew what splendid thing it was to be in love.

But we artists have to be selfish you know, after all, with each painting, we die a little.

He was spilling out a year of his life blood with every convulsive painting that he tore from his vitals. It was not the length of his stay on earth that mattered to him ; it was what he did with the days of his life. For him time would have to be measured by the paintings he poured out, not by the fluttering leaves of a calendar.

I do like to teach. Sitting in my great chair at school, I used to consider myself as some dictator at the head of a commonwealth...To fire a newborn soul with ardor for learning! At that time I thought the world could afford no greater pleasure.' - Those Who Love, p. 177

Only suffering grows big artists.

Art destroys the life.

Dintotdeauna cititul însemnase pentru el bucuria cea mai mare È™i mai statornic?, È™i cu atât mai mult îl pasiona acum, când în povestea triumfului sau a înfrângerilor, a suferinÈ›elor sau a bucuriilor altora g?sea o evadare din umbra st?ruitoare a propriei sale nereuÈ™ite... în fiecare carte pe care o citea încerca s? descopere È›elul care ar putea da vieÈ›ii lui un nou sens.

Because it will make a real artist of you. The more you suffer, the more grateful you ought to be. An empty stomach is better than a full one, Van Gogh, and a broken heart is better than happiness. Never forget that!

You know, Nabby, there's mighty few pleasures in life to equal doing one's job. It is an act of love… -p. 131

Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task -- such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping -- I always look forward to rewarding myself with the small pleasure of getting back to my typewriter and writing something.

Don't you think my interest can be real, even granted that it is professional, too?" "No, I don't.