Quotes About Passion

I don't sit around waiting for passion to strike me. I keep working steadily, because I believe it is our privilege as humans to keep making things. Most of all, I keep working because I trust that creativity is always trying to find me, even when I have lost sight of it.

Worse, their relationship with their work is often emotionally violent. You want to make something? You are told to open up a vein and bleed. Time to edit your work? You are instructed to kill your darlings.

He didn't quit his day job to follow his dream; he just folded his dream into his everyday life.

I held on to those other sources of income for so long because I never wanted to burden my writing with the responsibility of paying for my life.

There's no dishonor in having a job. What is dishonorable is scaring away your creativity by demanding that it pay for your entire existence.

Work with all your heart, because—I promise—if you show up for your work day after day after day after day, you

I do what I do because I like doing it.

The more unsettled and unbalanced we feel, the more quickly and recklessly we are likely to fall in love.

Go out there and love them hard...

I always try to remind myself that I am having an affair with my creativity, and I make an effort to present myself to inspiration like somebody you might actually want to have an affair with—not

El gran amor de mi vida es viajar

Stop treating your creativity like it's a tired, old, unhappy marriage (a grind, a drag) and start regarding it with the fresh eyes of a passionate lover. Even if you have only fifteen minutes a day in a stairwell alone with your creativity, take it. Go hide in that stairwell and make out with your art.

Do whatever brings you to life, then.

The guardians of high culture will try to convince you that the arts belong only to a chosen few, but they are wrong and they are also annoying. We

But if your calling is to make things, then you still have to make things in order to live out your highest creative potential—and also in order to remain sane.

La adicción es típica en todas las historias de amor basadas en el encaprichamiento. Al llegar al destino final del amor caprichoso: la más absoluta y despiadada devaluación del propio ser.

Everything reminds us of something. But once you put your own expression and passion behind an idea, that idea becomes yours.

Let us not become so cautious that we forget to live

Traveling is the great true love of my life...I have always felt that to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. I am loyal and constant in my love of travel.

Until I can feel as ecstatic about having a baby as I felt about going to New Zealand to search for a giant squid, I cannot have a baby.

Chérie, je suis Brésilien du sud. Je peux passer dix ans avec le coeur brisé à cause d'une femme que je n'ai même pas embrassée.

Todo comienza cuando el objeto de tu adoración te da una dosis embriagadora y alucinógena de algo que jamás te habías atrevido a admitir que necesitabas —un cóctel tóxico-sentimental, quizá, de un amor estrepitoso y un entusiasmo arrebatador—.

because in the end, creativity is a gift to the creator, not just a gift to the audience

Inspiration is allowed to do whatever it wants to, in fact, and it is never obliged to justify its motives to any of us.