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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. -- Charles Baudelaire
I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot. -- Nigel Dennis
As I grew older, I developed a very innate passion for art. I was actually pretty good at it. -- Evangeline Lilly
Most museums in Moscow, like Tretyakov, were established by philanthropists, whose passion for art allowed the development of culture on many levels. -- Dasha Zhukova
I don't have any other skills. Some artists say that to mean that their embodied passion for art gave them no choice. I say it, very specifically, to say that I really didn't have any other options. -- Rashid Johnson
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. -- Francois Pinault
Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another. -- Jim Dine
I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public. -- James Broughton
Dance music is my love, is my passion, is my life. I live for my fans and take my art very seriously. -- Steve Aoki
As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish. -- Charlie Haden
My passion for 'Star Trek' is actually rooted in my love of television and the art of franchise and a premise designed to stick people together that have to figure out what to do. -- Dan Harmon
The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination. -- Ai Weiwei
Fairly early in my career, I had a passion for wine just as a consumer, and I started to learn about the whole process, starting with a piece of raw ground, and ending up with a work of art in a bottle. -- Drew Bledsoe
I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. I spend a lot of time in museums; I particularly like the Guggenheim, MoMA in New York or LACMA and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, for example. I cannot wait for the Louis Vuitton Foundation to open. -- Delphine Arnault
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. -- Walter Pater
For me acting is a passion and an art, and always will only be that. I don't have any rules when it comes to acting. I'll do anything. But it depends on the script. Either I'll have passion for the project or I won't. It's got to fuel me. -- Shailene Woodley
My own life is wonderful, but if I had to live the life of someone else, I'd gladly choose that of Julia Child or Dr. Seuss: two outrageously original people, each of whom fashioned an idiosyncratic wisdom, passion for life, and sense of humor into an art form that anyone and everyone could savor. -- Julia Glass
I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. -- Delphine Arnault
A passion for the dramatic art is inherent in the nature of man. -- Edwin Forrest
A passion for his art, and an eager desire to excel, will more than supply an artist with the place of method. -- Joshua Reynolds
Some men's passion is for gold. some men's passion is for art. some men's passion is for fame. my passion is for souls -- William Booth
Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death. -- Milan Kundera
As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something thats never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish. -- Charlie Haden
As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is to keep oneself eager about anything. -- Susan Sontag

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