Quotes About Passion

I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane.

I've always been interested in the sport even as a young kid. I liked the sport of martial arts because I loved anything that involved contact, conflict or collision.

When I was 10, I knew there was something different about me. Everyone was football-mad, but I just wanted to watch musicals and see art.

I liked museums but I wanted to be a dancer, I wanted to go into performing arts, or be a writer.

I wanted to be a martial arts film star when I was a teenager.

Football is an art form in itself. All sports are.

I am interested in the art. I'm a professional woman

Reading and writing... are exciting. The most exciting things I can think of. And now, as I reflect... I have to say that I've been lucky in that I'm amused by what I do - sufficiently amused.

I've always loved movies, art and clothes.

What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope the people will receive it. Same as a playwright. It's art.

It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.

A lot of people who get into any art form have some form of mental..something in their head which is unstable

It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.

I think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon.

So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts.

I have a passion for modern and contemporary art.

Devoid of all romance, the music plays and everyone must dance. I'm bowing out.

I just like to choose projects that will allow me as an artist to make my art.

At best doing art you feel like you're led by something that doesn't involve you.

A lot of artists make art for five years, some artists make art for ten years, a few make art for fifteen: very few do it until they die.

The poet who does not revere his art, and believe in its sovereignty, is not born to wear the purple.

Music is a savage art, a measured madness.

Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it.

Art without heart is craft.