Quotes About Passion

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

Sometimes people save the best part of themselves for their art.

Art has more ego to it than what I do.

You've got to suffer for your art sometimes!

But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?

I cannot live without art: it excites me, it challenges me, and it leads me to the next thing.

If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.

I'd mortgage any house for art.

"Is Art worth dying for?" Well I don't know a single inanimate object that's worth dying for.

And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate.

I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general.

The art feeds my mind and soul and the job pays my bills. Finding the balance can be a challenge, but I am very fortunate for it.

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

I was a real art freak when I was a teenager.

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

Ardent yet chill and formal, how I ache to tempt a chisel as a sculptor.

Art for art's sake. [Lat., Ars gratia artis.]

Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.

What do we need spectators for? The game should be played behind closed doors. Football is an art!

Why dont they stick to murder and leave art to us?

I'm in this whole flow of doing certain art pieces without commerce.

It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.