Quotes About Passion

I was deeply in love with my mother. She was very beautiful and in many ways unattainable. She changed between being very cold and very warm, and she would reject us children on and off. You never quite knew what she would do. But I was very certain of one thing: I loved her passionately. That's one of my earliest childhood memories. That I had such strong ties to my mother.

I'm no pessimist. I don't loathe art because I couldn't live without devoting all my time to it. I love it as the only end of my life. Everything I do connected with it gives me intense pleasure. But still, I don't see why the whole world should be taken up with art, demand its credentials, and on that subject give free rein to its own stupidity. Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters.' -Picasso

I put my heart and soul into my work, and have half lost my mind in the process.' Van Gogh

This isn't business. This is poetry.

The best way to keep young is to keep going in whatever it is that keeps you going. With me that's work, and a lot of it. And when a job is finished, relax and have fun.

If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.

I won't do this movie because I don't believe the love story," she told Selznick. "The heroine is an intellectual woman, and an intellectual woman simply can't fall in love so deeply.

I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.

There are things that are more important than life.

He wasn't alive because he feared death. He was alive because he loved life.

Heureux sont ceux qui peuvent aimer et haïr sans feinte, sans détour, sans nuance.

And aren't the most beautiful follies the ones linked to love?

The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.

And then suddenly Danny's arms were around me, and his lips were on mine, and the crazy windshield wipers commenced singing our names together.

After all, the three of us were young. It wasn't just about the pleasure of the flesh. No, it wasn't that simple. The flesh is easy to satisfy. It's the heart that is insatiable, the heart that needs to love, to despair, to burn with any kind of fire…That was what we wanted. To burn, to be consumed, to devour our days just as fire devours the forest.

When you're twenty, love is like a fever, it makes you almost delirious. When it's over you can hardly remember how it happened...Fire in the blood, how quickly it burns itself out.

I'd want to hold you if you were going to lead me down to hell. Because if that's where you were, that's where I'd want to be.

I can't do anything else but my

How the hell do I know? It just hurts me to think about it....And its not because you're a great lay. Though you are. But I've had great lays before, and I didn't get torn up. You should have known it would come down to this." Garrett

I couldn't take you. So the violin will have to do." He smiled and moved over to the violin case on the bed. "The next time you play, it will be at Loch Gaelkar.

I can't be easy. It's not my nature. But it's my nature to love you.

What would I do with billions? I don't need it. Would it make me a better artist?

wanted life, but deep in her heart of hearts she only wanted

Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.