Passion For Art Quotes

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

As I grew older, I developed a very innate passion for art. I was actually pretty good at it.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Chase your passion, not your pension.

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

The passion for art is, as for believers, very religious. It unites people, its message is of common humanity. Art has become my religion - others pray in church. It's a banality, but you don't possess art, it possesses you. It's like falling in love.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

Don't think about making art.

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

Ask yourself what makes you come alive.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.