Quotes About Passion

I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.

My paintings are only the ashes of my art

I know what I like—I like art—and I like what I know.

How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.

Advice for a human 86. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances, so does indifference. It is a disease. Immunize yourself with art. And love.

I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art.

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?

You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.

Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.

Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.

We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.

Sleep with rockstars...Support the arts.

All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

They say that a lion puts his all, even into catching a rabbit. You should make it a habit of putting your all into every little thing you do.

There is no art without Eros.

Painting is like breathing to me. It's what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

I take the horsemanship very seriously and I treat it with the same integrity that one would any of the fine arts.

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

Painting is more important than art.

Art is a jealous mistress.