Quotes About Passion

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money either.

Dido, heartbroken, decides to do what any operatic heroine would do at such a moment: sing an aria, then kill herself.

Man, I love the 'Lord of the Rings' movies. Some people would say I'm weird for liking those types of movies, but they are so cool.

On this subject it is striking to note how many individuals pursue, outside of their own professions and with a kind of rebellious delight, hobbies that are no more than personalized forms of work. This suggests that one of the hidden desires of humanity, provoked by the inward clamor of unused potentialities, is the dream of work in freedom.

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

Do whatever you do intensely.

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.

Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.

A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.

A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.

Because we are saturated with life, because we are human, our strongest motive is life, humanity; and the stronger the motive back of the line the stronger, and therefore more beautiful, the line will be.

I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul

There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record of pain and dull perseverance. Great works of art should look as though they were made in joy. Real joy is a tremendous activity, dull drudgery is nothing to it.

Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.

The object is not to make art, but to be in the wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

The pictures which do not represent an intense interest cannot expect to create an intense interest.

It beats all the things that wealth can give and everything else in the world to say the things one believes, to put them into form, to pass them on to anyone who may care to take them up.

Pictures tell the story of actual impulse in the artist—or the lack of it.

Give me a kisse, and to that kisse a score; Then to that twenty, adde a hundred more; A thousand to that hundred; so kisse on, To make that thousand up a million; Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kisse afresh, as when we first begun.