Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

I don't necessarily do anything just for the money. I do it for the passion and I do it for the love, because I'm still hungry. So if I want to do music, it's not necessarily motivated because of monetary value. 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.

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

There is no art without Eros.

I need to fall in love with someone. Sorry - I mean fall in love with something. I need to wake myself up.

My songs tend to be about love. It drives some of the greatest songs. I'm looking forward to seeing what people make of my writing.

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.

What I treasure most at any moment is intimacy, surprise, a sense of mystery, wit, depth and love. A handful of cherished friends offer me this, and the occasional singer or film-maker or artist. But my most reliable sources of electricity are Henry David Thoreau, Shakespeare, Melville and Emily Dickinson.

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

The way to stay inspired and motivated is by doing what you like, doing what you love.

Love's a recurring theme through my work.

Someone asked me a while back, 'Why do artists always write about love?' And I was like, 'Love is the coolest thing that's ever happened in the world.'

I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do.

When I draw the scene that I'd been dreaming about or had always wanted to draw, that is the time that I'm happiest.

From an early age, I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.

The greatest music is made for love, not for money.

I love the rush of being creative. I really think I live for it.

Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work.

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness.

In the beginning, I didn't have to love them, my acts. It was mostly about being successful, getting a trophy, and making some money. Now if I don't love the idea of it, I don't work on it.