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Quotes About Passion

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.
~ Edie Brickell
Freedom without any purpose feels a whole lot like boredom.
~ Inio Asano
If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.
~ Paul Stanley
If somehow I can, before I leave this earth, combine my absolutely mad freedom and excitement with truth, then I will have done something.
~ Andrew Wyeth
Everyone should be encouraged...in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll.
~ John Cale
Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
~ Eric Hoffer
I'm an artist because that's what I was best at as a kid. It was fun... I continue to be an artist... for the freedom that an art career can bring. I don't need an alarm clock and I am my own boss.
~ Mark Kostabi
My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.
~ Venus Williams
Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable highlights.
~ George Will
All the words are already there when you're singing onstage, it's fantastic. You can lose yourself in what you've created. You're controlling this freedom.
~ Florence Welch
I don't do commissions and I like the freedom to create what my heart or mind tells me to.
~ Richard MacDonald
I practised as an architect for 10 years. I qualified in 1973 with a fellowship diploma of architecture. World Series Cricket gave me the freedom to go out and pursue architecture.
~ Max Walker
I am freedom and I will eat your heart
~ Catherynne M. Valente
The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac.
~ Denis Diderot
I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.
~ Richard Price
A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I don't make a lot of money, but I get to have freedom.
~ Hilton Als
My music is like my freedom space.
~ Jada Pinkett Smith
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.
~ Marcel Duchamp
Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship.
~ George Sand
So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.
~ John Green, Looking for Alaska
Angel, saint, Devil's spawn, good or evil, you've got me pinned to the wall and labeled as yours until the day I die. And if you die first, then it won't be long before I follow.
~ Virginia C. Andrews
Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.
~ Stephen Sondheim