Dorothea Lange Quotes

But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.

I love painting so much that nothing else matters.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.

Passion is the genesis of genius.

Of course I have bills to pay, but at the same time, it's more about the passion and the love, and I think that's where music should come from, the heart, not necessarily just to cash a check.

Everything good takes a great amount of effort. Like, things went wrong with 'Prozac Nation' so much, and it went through so many rejections and incarnations, but I felt so much that it needed to exist. But if I hadn't been so persistent and insistent, it wouldn't have happened.

Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.

I was fortunate enough to write about things I really love, and love can be very analytic.

When I read about Joyce, I realised that there was no eight-till-one in his life: it was 24 hours a day for him.

An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

Nathan, how can you stand playing the same piece over and over again?" And Grandpa Nate answered, "Why don't you ask me how I can stand making love to the same woman over and over again?

Art is a jealous mistress.

Obsession is beautiful. It's what makes art.

From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.

The practice of any art demands more than 'mere savoir faire'. One must not only be in love with what one does, one must also know how to make love. In love self is obliterated. Only the beloved counts.

When I am on stage, I give everything. Maybe because of that, I won't last long, but I don't care.

There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives me satisfaction.

When you work with a DeNiro or Hoffman, they love what they do so much that there's never any competitive vibe. It's more about how do we do this thing together.

Opera is an exclusive art form, so it cannot be that popular. I just do what I love to do.

My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in.

I've always wanted to be a singer and an actor. I will continue to concentrate on both because I love both.

I'm a laid-back guy, but my brain is always wrapped up in music.

I love making movies. But it's a lot of investing your heart and soul. It can be exhausting.

Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.