Passionate Artist Quotes

#1. The thing about working with Peter Jackson is that, at the end of the day, he is a passionate artist.

William Kircher

#2. The goal of a passionate artist is to try and make a masterpiece each and every time, yet be wise enough to know you will fall short.

Donato Giancola

#3. Purpose and passion - purpose is what will guide you to your best self and the passion will keep you there.

Nikki Rowe

#4. Hey, fellas! How about this for a headline for tomorrow's paper? 'French Fries!'"
Convicted murderer James French to members of the press who were witnesses at his execution by the State of Oklahoma in the electric chair in 1966.

James French

#5. The casualties among us include not just those who are dying, or bleeding, or recovering from injury, but also the caretakers around the edges whose selves fall sacrificed to their charges.

Natalie Kusz

#6. Artist development is something that I've been passionate about from my days at Uptown and Motown Records.

Laurieann Gibson

#7. There's two approved methods for getting a pedicure for a guy. Number one, you use your own grinder or ... You have an eighteen year-old Vietnamese girl rub your feet and call you Joe and that's it!

Christopher Titus

#8. As an artist, you have to do what you feel passionate about. It has to be something you can connect with.

Stephanie Sigman

#9. Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey. The love may sublime, raw, obsessive, passionate, awful. or thrilling, but whatever its quality, it's a powerful motive in the artist's life.

Eric Maisel

#10. The true artist plays mad with his soul, labors at the very lip of the volcano, but remembers and clings to his purpose, which is as strong as the dream. He is not someone possessed, like Cassandra, but a passionate, easily tempted explorer who fully intends to get home again, like Odysseus.

John Gardner

#11. The passionate reactions of people to a painting, the exclamation, 'Oh, this is wonderful,' may, even if meant in a positive way, entirely destroy the chiaroscuro, the mystical hidden weaving of fantasy which the artist needs ...

Marie-Louise Von Franz

#12. For me, artists and people that are passionate are fighting for what they believe in and what they want, and that's always appealing. I find that really interesting.

Noomi Rapace

#13. Which are you? ... competen t, inspiring, passionate, obsessed, provocative, impatient, hungry, driven, adoring, inspired, an artist, a genius, someone who cares ... ?
With all these remarkable, powerful, important options available to each of us, why do so many of us default to competent?

Seth Godin

#14. Country music fans are extremely passionate and loyal. It seems that country artists have longer-lasting careers because the fans stick with the artists through thick and thin.

Miranda Lambert

#15. All men equal in rights and duties, all men equally responsible for the destiny of mankind - what a dream!

Leon Bourgeois

#16. The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist and an engineer.

Arthur Ganson

#17. We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children, between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves. Or not.

Elie Wiesel

#18. Many excellent artists working today unfortunately lack the indispensable gifts necessary for demagoguery and self-promotion, while the bad ones are full of passionate intensity.

Roman Genn

#19. The artist-muse relationship is romantic and passionate, and complex, and I would imagine that would be a hard relationship to have if you're not with the person. It requires so much of each other, you have to be in love with each other.

Kate Bosworth

#20. No amount of technical knowledge and competence is, of itself, sufficient to make a craftperson into an artist. That requires caring - passionate caring about ultimate things.

Freeman Patterson

#21. The artist at her best - wild, passionate, rebellious, and human - is often too large and truthful a creature for society's taste. The artist at her most outlandish - profane, eccentric, even a little mad - is at least as disquieting a figure.

Eric Maisel

#22. I do think there's a difference when you see a book where you can tell the creator's doing something they really love or are really passionate about as opposed to an artist or a writer who is just doing a particular job or trying to sell a product or trying to cash in on a popular trend.

Mike Mignola

#23. My first sense of myself was as an artist, a painter. I would see a Van Gogh painting and just love it, the more emotional and passionate the more it attracted me.

Philip Schultz

#24. What do you think an artist is? ... he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

Pablo Picasso

#25. Color me....BRILLIANT.

Coco J. Ginger

#26. Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.

Charlotte Eriksson

#27. I love being a mommy, and I love being an artist, and I love being a singer and an actress and making a movie - all that stuff I feel very passionate about, so I have a lot of energy for it.

Melora Hardin

#28. Most true artists care about music as a pure, passionate art form, but can get caught in the trap of the business. Which, sadly, has now become more important than the artist or even the music itself.

Rosanna Arquette