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Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion. -- Gloria Vanderbilt
I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public. -- James Broughton
Competition is all in numbers; it's a numbers game, but I looked at it like it's a passion, and it's art. -- Will Champlin
Most museums in Moscow, like Tretyakov, were established by philanthropists, whose passion for art allowed the development of culture on many levels. -- Dasha Zhukova
With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day! -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. -- Henry James
Great art would have 'head': it would have interesting intellectual ideas and concepts. It would have 'heart' in that it would have passion and heart and soul. And it would have 'hand' in that it would be greatly crafted. -- Shea Hembrey
I look at composers and conductors, anybody involved in music or writing or art in general; they got more done as they got older. If I can, I'll be one of those people because what I do is my passion. -- Sarah Brightman
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
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
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
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
Some prescient American collectors, including Vicki and Kent Logan and Mera and Donald Rubell, began collecting Chinese art before 2000 with a genuine passion, but as the auction prices exploded everyone was beating a path to the galleries and artist studios in China. It became the 'China thing.' -- Arne Glimcher
Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this point like professing an interest in air. Passion is nice. Erudition is admirable. But it's like that moment when good manners cross over into meaningless etiquette. -- David Rakoff
When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher. -- David Coverdale
I thought, 'A biennial needs artists. I'm going to do an international biennial; I need artists from all around the world.' So what I did was I invented a hundred artists from around the world. I figured out their bios, their passions in life and their art styles, and I started making their work. -- Shea Hembrey
If you want to devote yourself to the arts, you'd better do it strictly from passion, because there is zero guarantee that you'll get anywhere. The hardest thing is dealing with business people who have nothing to do with your art. They could care less that you're up at 4:30 in the morning writing a joke. Don't expect any sympathy from anybody. -- Richard Lewis
Art is a passion or it is nothing -- Robert Fry
Art is a passion or it is nothing. -- Robert Fry
Some poems are art because of their passion. -- Gerald Stern
I don't wish power, only art -art and passion. -- Anais Nin
I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. -- Delphine Arnault
I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot. -- Nigel Dennis
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. -- Charles Baudelaire
The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin. -- Seth Godin
Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper. -- Gunter Grass
A passion for the dramatic art is inherent in the nature of man. -- Edwin Forrest
Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another. -- Jim Dine
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. -- Honore de Balzac
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. -- Honore de Balzac
Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper. -- Gunter Grass
As I grew older, I developed a very innate passion for art. I was actually pretty good at it. -- Evangeline Lilly
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. -- Rita Mae Brown
Truth and beauty can still win battles. We need more art, more passion, more wit in defense of the Earth. -- David R. Brower
To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart. -- Aberjhani
The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers. -- Harold Bloom
Art is the most important thing to me in the entire world. It is my passion. Nothing else. End of story. -- Sarah Lacy
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff. -- D. H. Lawrence
Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff. -- D. H. Lawrence
The art market was very different before the mid-1980s: then, art was all about passion, whereas now it's become a commodity. -- Adam Clayton
A passion for his art, and an eager desire to excel, will more than supply an artist with the place of method. -- Joshua Reynolds
Mastering an art is like reaching the top of the passion mountain....at the top the passion dies out! So keep learning. -- Siddharth Katragadda
Dance music is my love, is my passion, is my life. I live for my fans and take my art very seriously. -- Steve Aoki
Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates. -- Werner Herzog
The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine. But in all essentials, my life was a good performance. -- Josephine Hart
I really just started buying art as a passion. I never considered it an investment, but it ended up being a good investment. -- Daniel S. Loeb
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
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
To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective. -- Louise Erdrich
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
Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in many dreams, in religion, passion, art. -- Arthur Symons
In homosexual love the passion is homosexuality itself. What a homosexual loves, as if it were his lover, his country, his art, his land, is homosexuality. -- Marguerite Duras
Art can't be taught; passion can't be taught; discipline can't be taught; but craft can be taught. And writing is both an art and a craft. -- Elizabeth George
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
Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world with art and song. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Love would never b a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with a light of faith, water of sincerity, and an art of passion. -- Jack Canfield
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
More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it. -- May Sarton
In the abstract art of cooking, ingredients trump appliances, passion supersedes expertise, creativity triumphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes even the worst culinary disaster taste delicious. -- Bob Blumer

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