Passion for Art Quotes

My future plans are hazy, and I've yet to experience how much cartooning is in my blood and therefore how much I'll miss it. But I have some other interests, especially in music, and I will probably take the opportunity to delve into those things more deeply.

I won an award for my debut film. However, my career went up and down after that but I kept getting work. I did whatever excited me and did not think which role or film will change my career.

Where there is no heart there is no art.

Photography is not something you retire from.

Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.

I didn't feel that my identity was caught up in being a cartoonist, and that if it stopped I'd stop.

I truly find such a sense of peace and calm when I'm working, and it's an inner peace that I've never been ever to achieve, doing anything else. It's where I feel most myself. I can access my power and strength, as an artist, and I can't imagine not doing it. I love it!

The more you love your art/ calling/ enterprise, the more important its accomplishment to the evolution of your soul, the more you will fear it and the more Resistance you will experience facing it.

To be an artist is to believe in life.

Every day I feel different about music, but what never changes is my love for it.

I studied with Strasberg, Elia Kazan. They raised the bar. They weren't easy to please, and they made you achieve the best you could do. That's what a teacher does: he infuses you with passion for something.

Art is not a career - it's a life.

I don't think it's about art being a career but it's about making sure that if art is something that you love, something that brings you joy, it's about you having a duty to find time in your life for that thing that brings you joy...even if it can only be a small amount.

My dad's intense love for art and music is what drove me to learn music

I know that my father was a little nervous about me pursuing a career in the arts.

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.

Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that is something you can't will.

They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do.

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.

Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others.

We have something that is unique. We have our craft. We have our art. We have our desire.

I hate to sound like a romantic adolescent, but I believe artists don't generally see art as a career choice; they simply can't overcome their desire to make art, and will live on little income for as long as they have to, before they start to sell their work - or give up and get a paying job.

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.

Love is a key ingredient for creativity.