Love of Art Quotes

I love art more than anything in the world except for my family.

People ask you all the time, 'Why do you do this? Why don't you quit, man, take your money and go home?' I just do it because I love making music.

I'm not looking for career attention, for more success, more money. I'm just singing songs I chose because I love them.

I did 'Tumbleweeds' for fun. I did it because I loved it and I hardly even got paid.

I don't do what I do to get nominated. I do what I do because I love it.

I can't stay friends with anyone who doesn't have a passion for something; and, generally speaking, artistic people, creative people carry it right into the kitchen, too. They have a zest for life; the excitement of living. All of the great eaters I've known are also men of great wit.

My mum wouldn't do a film for money. She does it as a passion. That's why she's involved in things that are so brilliant. She really cares about what she does.

My love of music has been ever-growing, and to live in Music City - I don't want to live anywhere else.

I would have only doubted myself if I was really attached to the result of what I was doing, but I was always doing it and will always do it for the love of making songs, and if you liked it you liked it, if you didn't, you didn't. It was always pure and always will be pure.

So many go into the business just to be famous, not because they are passionate about their craft.

Everything is there: the love of Art.

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic.

I'd always loved writing, in the same way that I'd loved painting. I wouldn't have seen it as a career.

I just love music, in general. I love art.

Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real.

You do movies because you love movies and you write music because you love writing music, and sometimes there's this magic combination.

I kept on writing and illustrating, for this is what I did well because I loved it.

The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.

I don't hate work, composing is not work for me, it's my pleasure; it's my life. So why should I stop? If something is pleasurable and exciting and rewarding, why should one stop?

My dad's side of the family had lots of artists and musicians. There's an emotional, quite sentimental quality to Slavic culture. It's very open, it loves art, it loves music, it loves literature. It's very warm, it's very up, it's very down. I would celebrate that.

Something must always remain that eludes us ... For power to have an object on which it can be exercised, a space in which to stretch out its arms ... As long as I know there exists in the world someone who does tricks only for the love of the trick, as long as I know there is a woman who loves reading for reading's sake, I can convince myself that the world continues ... And every evening I, too, abandon myself to reading, like that distant unknown woman.

Even though Nightwish is my life and I love what I do - I could do this every day - to not do it really makes you desire even more for it again.