H. G. Wells Quotes

What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint.

A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope.

An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and moral integrity hold in balance. But greatness of intellect and feeling, or soul and conduct - magnanimity, in short - does occur; it is not a myth for boy scouts, and its reality is important, if only to give us the true range of the term "human," which we so regularly define by its lower reaches.

I wouldn't want to compare myself to David Byrne whom I consider a genius, but what I think what we have in common is that he's also a guy who is very interested in the world and who has a lot of passions beyond singing and playing guitar.

If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.

The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

I start to lose my mind if I'm not working on something, like breaking my back on something.

I think that passion if really intense is always destructive if not to the two involved, always to other people.

There is no such thing as a crime of passion, only a crime of possession.

You'll nip anybody who's coming at you with bullshit. You don't play around. You take this craft very seriously. It's what separates you, what separates an actor from an artist.

Never love for me, only obsession.

A writer, or any artist, can’t expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because you have to, because it’s your calling.

Many days you will want to give up because of rejections and failures. Passion to be an artist will help you prevail where others fail.

The love of spectacles was the taste, or rather passion, of the Syrians: the most skilful artists were procured form the adjacent cities; a considerable share of the revenue was devoted to the public amusements; and the magnificence of the games of the theatre and circus was considered as the happiness, and as the glory, of Antioch.

He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.

The minority who actually loves its work seems to be made up chiefly of the writers, dancers, actors and other artists, most scientists above the technician-troll level, computer freaks, and the righteous dope-dealers of California.

Talk about a struggling artist having to work against enormous odds ... But I love movies so much, so I'm going to do it.

How often have I actually discovered in myself that enthusiasm raises the artist above himself, how in an ordinary mood one would not have been able to accomplish many of the things for which enthusiasm lends one everything, energy, fire.

Any man who concentrates his energies totally on one passion is, by definition, someone who hurts the people close to him.

You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.

Anything that you can do a tiny bit of research about, I'll turn it into an obsession.

There's only one passion in most artists more violent than their desire for admiration: their fear of identifying the nature of such admiration as they do receive.

My first record - it was 1991. I was 16 years old. My first album came out when I was 20. So, I've been here that long and I still have the passion to do it.