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Quotes About Passion

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
~ Elizabeth Hardwick
Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.
~ Lake Bell
Without passions you have no experience whatever.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It is really important to have an obsessive need to construct something, to understand something from your own experience.
~ Gregory Crewdson
Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Falling in love is a completely transcendent experience. It's like eating pizza-flavored ice cream
~ Mike Birbiglia
Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.
~ Humphrey Bogart
The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon it with creative lust.
~ George Bellows
I know I'm in the band and everything but sometimes I just have to rock out to the John Frusciante Experience.
~ Anthony Kiedis
I have always been interested in art but had no formal training or experience. It's always been just what I liked, my eye for art.
~ Britt Robertson
I think that a real film fan experience is about a kind of omnivorous experience.
~ Tilda Swinton
The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality.
~ Anais Nin
When we are bursting with some wordless experience, Art is our voice, the song of the heart.
~ Richard Schmid
I would strongly encourage anybody embarking on photography as a career to embrace and enjoy the whole process. Being a photographer can be a wonderful way to experience the world.
~ Michael Kenna
The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.
~ Alicia Keys
Acting is something I appreciate, and I think it's been an amazing experience. But I'm not passionate about acting the way you probably should be to call yourself an actor.
~ Evangeline Lilly
I was brought up by two people who just said, Whatever it is you're interested in, go do it. There is no winning or losing. You find out when you do it what the experience is.
~ Kurt Russell
Everything that happens to me, I experience it really intensely. I feel it very deeply.
~ Fiona Apple
People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.
~ Mikhail Baryshnikov
Experience and enthusiasm are two fine business attributes seldom found in one individual.
~ William Feather
I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.
~ Norman Jewison
I like to do things that are step by step. It takes experience to get to the next level. And you have to put your heart into it.
~ Reem Acra
Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
~ Ambrose Bierce
People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.
~ Trace Adkins