Lin Yutang Quotes

I love the passion you go through while you're creating.

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 make a picture, I make love.

Passion: It's what separates a singer from an entertainer. I hope I have passion for my music, my family, and my friends until they start shoveling dirt on my face.

I like to see things that take a lot of time and effort and passion. Which I feel like 'Skins' has.

[Doing music] is time consuming, will drain you, and stress you out at times. But in the end if you love doing it, and you're putting out music you're proud of, it will never feel like work. It'll just feel like love.

Love is the spiritual essence of what we do. Technique is the manifestation of the preparation and investment as a result of the love.

Art, like love, excludes all competition and absorbs the man.

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.

Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.

I have never really been a great artist. I have been a human being that has loved art, which is not the same thing. But I have loved and believed in art and the idea of universal brotherhood so much, that I have put everything I have into them, and I have been blessed.

You put your heart and soul into something, and you really hope that people love it as much as you do.

I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

A musical takes two to five years. You have to love it to put in the years.

I love painting so much that nothing else matters.

I love the magic of the studio.

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

I can't write songs unless I am in love.

My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.

If I didn't love it, I would not record it.

If you believe in your art, and you love what you do, that energy will go out, and people will respond.

The greatest music is made for love, not for money.

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.