Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

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

Obsession is beautiful. It's what makes art.

I start a picture and I finish it.

When I make a picture, I make love.

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 only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

I love painting so much that nothing else matters.

You have to find something that you have to obsess over if you're making a movie about it. As a director, you have to be able to pick something that excites you enough that you can breathe it every day.

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.

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

The films I want to make, I really want to be passionate about.

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.

What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's around you. That's what photography does for me.

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.

From the beginning, about the rude altar of the god, to the days of Goethe, of Leopardi, and of Victor Hugo, the poet is the leader in the dance of life; and the phrase by which we name his singularity, the poetic temperament, denotes the primacy of that passion in his blood with which the frame of other men is less richly charged.

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'm an artist in my heart.

I just love making music and entertaining. I really do live for this culture. I don't think about the other stuff.

I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. "Labor," he in effect said, "is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art." Turning then to another--"And you," I inquired, "what do you consider as the great force in art?" "Love," he replied. In their two answers I found but one truth.

It does not matter whether you paint, sculpt, or make shoes, whether you are a gardener, a farmer, a fisherman, a carpenter-it does not matter. What matters is, are you putting your very soul into what you are creating? Then your creative products have something of the quality of divine.

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.

A lot of people like to think that polio was a inspiration in what I do. I think that music has to do with what kind of passion do you have.