Quotes About Passion

Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?

Words are hotter than flames. Words are wetter than water.

I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it.

You'll need to suffer to make any real art.

My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years.

Neglect your art for one day and it will neglect you for two!

Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood.

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

I was loving music, and loving art, painting, so I was considering those things, but I must say I dug acting as well.

I attended the Columbus College Of Art & Design for a little while, until I realized they didn't take cartooning very seriously.

Obsession is beautiful. It's what makes art.

Nobody needs an Artist, but everyone needs ART.

If you're an artist, you've got to prove it.

A true artist is driven by the never-ending desire to create.

My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.

Maybe in any art you have to be wholly you in the context of whatever you're doing.

The brightest sun of the art always rises on the horizons of unhappiness.

I feel lost not doing art, unsatisfied, anxious, bored. Everything else in comparison seems not terribly important.

It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.

I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.

You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.

All I owe the world is my art.

She danced because she needed to. She needed to say things which could be said in no other way, and she needed to take her meaning and her living from the saying of them.

A true artist is practically married to his or her art form so I just couldn't turn my back on it.