Quotes About Passion

I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money.

I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can still do it if you're not clinging to the notion of nobility.

Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving up the notion of the nobility of art.

Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.

Listening to great music and art inspires me and recharges me.

All of those art-based fields are similar in that they're all hard to make a living in and they all require an intense amount of training and discipline.

It would nice to live in a world where art can just be art!

Someone told me once that to create true art you must be willing to bleed and let others watch.

Some jobs you do - maybe you don't - are jobs that pay mortgages and some are art and I don't care about not being paid on those.

To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me.

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed.

The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.

Art simply can't be stopped.

Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.

I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.

I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.

I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but Im not a painter.

I loved music and art, combining the two seemed like a natural match.

The true artists is one who insists on producing a supply, whether or not there's any demand.

I always knew that I'd probably do something in the arts.

I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.

There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired.

I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can't say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.

Cooking certainly has some of the elements of an art form.