Mark Victor Hansen Quotes

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

Passion is just something that comes naturally to me.

Sentiment inspires me no less than reason.

Passion is not something you have to talk about. People feel it.

O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet the Evening listens.

I am very mistrustful of people who are constantly over intellectualising things. It kills passion. You have to allow yourself to lose control from time to time.

I'm better when I'm an autodidact and things just come. Or you're just blessed. I'm not bragging or anything, it just comes to you.

He can't even be at a casual read and not be creating the whole thing in his mind. I remember feeling very awed about how much he still seems to be so in love with it, and so dedicated to making everything really real and really spontaneous.

You have to have passion for a subject to write about it. You can't expect your readers to feel any excitement if it's nothing but a boring writing exercise for you.

I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

I can't work on something if I don't believe in it. I love music, and I am inspired to work harder and spend more energy. I feel lucky that I was born with this passion.

I think if people are passionate about something, it could be real estate or biochemistry, and that spark gets turned on in them, everyone's beautiful in that zone.

Action, so to speak, is the genius of nature.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

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

I don't have any formula. I just work with my heart, putting in a lot of hard work.

You can't teach passion. You can teach everything else.

Pretty much my feel toward MCs is, if you really got heart, you got passion, let's get on and do something. I like doing stuff with people that's real.

The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

We don't always know what we're doing. We often just get excited, put something down, and say, 'Oh, neat'.

I just know when I read something if it's something that I want to do.

You can't ever create defensively. You just have to create the next thing that really speaks to you.

If people see that you're passionate about what you're creating, they're going to enjoy it.

One day I had an instinct to put on a kaftan and go out and sing. People liked it out of the blue. An artist should be instinctive.