Quotes About Passion

Pictures just come to my mind and I tell my heart to go ahead.

Art is not only about angst.

My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

If you're not willing to go too far, you'll never go far enough in life.

As far as possible, I want nothing more than to don my training gi and teach Karate.

If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea?

If you dance with your heart, your body will follow.

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

Art is doing something you really believe in.

Whether it's horses or whatever it is you do, it doesn't become an art until your soul goes into what you do.

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in terms of music, fashion, and entertainment.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something much less elusive, much more mundane.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

Cooking may be as much a means of self-expression as any of the arts.

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.