Quotes About Passion

Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

The rhythm is below me, the rhythm of the heat. The rhythm is around me, the rhythm has control. The rhythm is inside me, the rhythm has my soul.

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle.

An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty.

Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's how I felt about drawing.

When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

I've always been doing some sort of art. I started off, when I was very young, painting.

I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.

It's kind of an art, going out and performing. I'd like fans to remember me as a guy who would go out and entertain them, give them quality matches, and not just the same old garbage every week.

There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme.

In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us... The artist lives with anxiety.

I am a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing - I have a heart and a soul and want to touch people and give.

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art

The arts are not a way to make a living.

I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.

Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.

It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things only is to degenerate into mediocrity and obscurity.

As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it absolutely.