Joss Whedon Quotes

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 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.

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.

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

There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives me satisfaction.

I love painting so much that nothing else matters.

I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off. The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

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

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.

My artistry is my baby.

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

To make art you need to be inspired.

Great art can only be created out of love.

You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

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

That's the difference between the serious artist and the craftsman--the craftsman can take material and because of his abilities do a professional job of it. The serious artist, like Proust, is like an object caught by a wave and swept to shore. He's obsessed by his material; it's like a venom working in his blood and the art is the antidote.

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.

I just want to make good music. That's it. That's what I care about.

My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.