James Ivory Quotes

One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art.

To glorify the cult of images (my great, my only, my earliest passion).

You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.

A passion for his art, and an eager desire to excel, will more than supply an artist with the place of method.

If you go into acting to make money then you're an idiot. It's my hobby and the fact that I'm doing my hobby for a job is mental.

I don't believe other people are ever as foolishly excited as I am while I'm working. How could they be? Writers would have to live in trees.

The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must feel and comprehend the vast pressure of the creative passion.

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there.

Violence, passion, indignation, loyalty, integrity, incorruptibility, shameless egoism, generosity, excitability, energy, a hundred horse-power drive - none of it very subtle: Ethel [Smyth] didn't deal in pastel shades, she went for the stronger colors, the blood-red, anything deep and pumping out of the arteries of the heart.

I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.

Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art

I'm delighted when people respond with passion and readily intensity to my work. Literature is not as the economist would put it a positional good; in other words, there is infinite space for good literature.

I love to draw, so I really want to go and study art. I've never done things for me. I've always done things for my career or for my family.

I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.

Antique art has come down to us in a fragmentary condition, and we have virtuously adapted our taste to this necessity. Almost all our favorite specimens of Greek sculpture, from the sixth century onward, were originally parts of compositions, and if we were faced with the complete group in which the Charioteer of Delphi was once a subsidiary figure, we might well experience a moment of revulsion. We have come to think of the fragment as more vivid, more concentrated, and more authentic.

I just want to try - on a daily basis keep trying - to make music that I really love.

First, I think of myself as a brand, a businesswoman. Musician is something I just do because it's my passion - I love it and it's something I do for fun. I love music and I love to make people dance.

If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights.

I tried to stick with what I knew best, which is writing rock n' roll songs and melodies. I am as passionate as I was when I was 20.

I have always loved locomotives passionately. For me they are living creatures and I love them as others love women or horses.

If I succeed in putting some warmth and love into the work, then it will find friends. Carrying on working is the

I love music. That's my first love. I'm actually going to start working on that full-time very soon, but I love acting as well. It satisfies a different part of who I am. I love to pretend, to imagine, try new things, work with different people, and just see how far I can go.

I want people to hear or watch something I've done and feel that I've given it everything I've got.