Quotes About Passion

Art for me is like breathing. When I stop breathing, what happens?

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

He who works with his hands is a laborer.He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.

Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.

the way to create art is to burn and destroyordinary concepts and to substitute themwith new truths that run down from the top of the headand out of the heart

I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made..

In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine

You need feeling, emotion, to create. You can't create out of indifference.

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent

Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Art fuels the fire inside me.

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

I think, if one is a true art lover, he can't stick to a particular genre. Art knows no partitions, no boundaries.

TODAY IS A GREAT DAY TO MAKE ART.

There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.

I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.

Art is the overflow of emotion into action.

Doggedness in art is no substitute for inspiration.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.

Art is vice. You don't wed it, you rape it.

A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.