Quotes About Passion

Art is a kind of illness.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore, non feci mai male ad anima viva!

Chi il bel sogno di Doretta potè indovinar? Il suo mister come mai come mai fini Ahimè! un giorno uno studente in bocca la baciò e fu quel bacio rivelazione: fu la passione! Folle amore! Folle ebbrezza! Chi la sottil carezza d'un bacio così ardente mai ridir potrà? Ah! mio sogno! Ah! mia vita! Che importa la ricchezza se alfine è rifiorita la felicità! O sogno d'or poter amar così!

I've so many things to tell you, or rather only one, but that one is huge as the ocean, as deep and infinite as the sea… You are my love and my whole life!

It helps immerse yourself in what you potentially want to do. Being involved, learning firsthand and observing the craft and absorbing all you can, makes it easier to define what you want. It will also ultimately make you a better Chef. Culinary school, or even a single class, is a great bet too.

He merely added that often you don't do what you would have liked to do in life, but that what you'd like to do isn't necessarily what you would be good at doing. Which, needless to say, is true.

I knew I'd never get enough of her. She was straight out of hell.

Watch for when he goes," she whispered. "Then come over to my bedroom. I'll be waiting, darling. Run!

I want to be the best in whatever I do.

You know, that's all basketball is. If someone loves something, and you take it away, it's like what does he do now? What does someone do? That's what happened with me.

Everyone is having sex until they fall in love. When you fall in love, then it's making love.

If you take away the last few years, from my last year in Washington, and you think about my career, there was nothing but hard work. I was in the gym three or four times a day, working on my skills. If we lost a game, and I thought I played bad, I'm staying in the gym to keep shooting. That's what I did. That's what I was known for: I was a gym rat.

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

There are no uninteresting things, there are only uninterested people.

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher. A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it. A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

J'ai poursuivi en vain deux quêtes impossibles- celle de l'amour- jusqu'à la déraison; celle de l'amitié, jusqu'à la désillusion. Tel un papillon fou, mon cœur s'est brûlé cent fois aux flammes de ces sentiments éternels. Au fil de mes voyages, le long des plaines fertiles et des espaces désertiques, j'ai appris l'oubli, j'ai oublié d'apprendre.

Tu t'efforces d'alimenter la passion charnelle et ruses pour grappiller quelque argent, alors que tu oublies l'obscurité qui t'entourera dans ton tombeau et ne songes pas à ce qui t'adviendra ensuite.

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

We all can dance," he said, "when we find music that we love.

We can all dance when we find music that we love.