Quotes About Passion

. . . rock and roll, as I see it, is the ultimate populist art form, democracy in action, because it's true: anybody can do it.

The artist is justified by his art.

Ah, but art and trouble go hand in hand. If you cannot be troubled to create art from your heart, then your art will never trouble the heart of others.

I can concentrate on my art.

My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies.

All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

when you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most.

Like everyone, I want to make my own "fine art."

I didn't go to a normal high school. It was for people in the performing arts.

my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!

I was always a performing arts kid in general - but I felt like my ultimate goal was to be an actress and be in films.

More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it.

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect them too much. I liked my art classes best.

If I would not be able to create music, I would create art or something else. Perhaps cooking.

Customer research produces bland products. We're producing a piece of art.

It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly.

Nothing else exists when art does.

I've always been huge into martial arts.

I had danced when I was younger, until I was about 12, and I always idealized it, as most young girls do, as the most beautiful art. It's an expression without words.

It doesn't matter what it is, it doesn't matter if you have training or a background in it. Just create something, and lend a piece of yourself to that art.

Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying.

At the end of the day, filmmaking is a sheer act of creative will. You have to be prepared to stick with your art no matter what comes your way.