Quotes About Passion

I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.

If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.

I want to be free... free to develop my art.

Any blockhead can arrange a sublet. All I ever wanted was to support myself on art.

No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of the best - have educated themselves.

Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder. So I went to art college, and it just gradually happened.

I'd rather produce art than become art.

Artists, like yourself, are born with a need to express that's just innate.

Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.

When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art.

The true artist can only labor con amore.

Focus should be on the art of film, not on the business of film.

The true professional makes art when he is not feeling good, if the studio is too cold or too warm or the walls are falling down. We are painters and we paint. If I were a sculptor, I'd sculpt.

Wearing hats has become like fine art for me.

We'll always have art, darling.

There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

Ive lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once created, or produced, the art of fiction.

If I ever have a conflict between art and nature, I let art win.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.

My art has nothing to do with servicing collectors, it's for living, for turning on with.