Quotes About Passion

Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about.

Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.

All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Blood is just red sweat.

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.

Keep doing what you like to do. That's all it is.

Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.

Whether it be personal or musical, I just think Im a walking art piece, just a ball of creativity.

Don't be afraid of expressing what you really mean in your art, what you really feel. Say it visually, as strongly as you can. Push as far a reach as you can, then go all the way!

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himeself with his art

I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

At culinary school, none of the things we use to define ourselves outside that world - actor, producer, student - none of that matters. It's a magical art form.

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.

I think most dancers would agree that the art of ballet chooses the dancer, not the other way around.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.

Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold.

A work of art comes only from inside a human being.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

I was born into a world of art. I always thought that in life, you breathe, you eat, you go to sleep and you draw.

Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.