Quotes About Passion

your life is short and rare and amazing and miraculous, and you want to do really interesting things and make really interesting things while you're still here.

The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.

Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.

Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.

Just say what you want to say . . . and say it with all your heart.

Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this earth to do?

I want to learn how to speak Italian. For years, I'd wished I could speak Italian--a language I find more beautiful than roses :)

Nothing will uproot your life more violently than true love—at least as far as I've always witnessed.

too many maniacs not enough michelangelos

Go be whomever you want to be, then. Do whatever you want to do. Pursue whatever fascinates you and brings you to life.

I firmly believe that we all need to find something to do in our lives that stops us from eating the couch.

I've had to keep defining and defending myself as a writer every single day of my adult life -- constantly reminding and re-reminding my soul and the cosmos that I'm very serious about the business of creative living, and that I will never stop creating, no matter what the outcome, and no matter how deep my anxieties and insecurities may be.

Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story.

traveling is the great true love of my life

I have watched so many other people murder their creativity by demanding that their art pay the bills.

Creativity is a crushing chore and a glorious mystery. The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you.

All I know for certain is that this is how I want to spend my life—collaborating to the best of my ability with forces of inspiration that I can neither see, nor prove, nor command, nor understand. It's a strange line of work, admittedly. I cannot think of a better way to pass my days.

Because if you love and want something enough—whatever it is—then you don't really mind eating the shit sandwich that comes with it.

You are free, because everyone is too busy fussing over themselves to worry all that much about you. Go be whomever you want to be, then. Do whatever you want to do. Pursue whatever fascinates you and brings you to life. Create whatever you want to create—and let it be stupendously imperfect, because it's exceedingly likely that nobody will even notice. And that's awesome.

Painting working!

If inspiration is allowed to unexpectedly enter you, it is also allowed to unexpectedly exit you.

The work wants to be made, and it wants to be made through you.

Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself.

My creative expression must be the most important thing in the world to me (if I am to live artistically), and it also must not matter at all (if I am to live sanely).