D. H. Lawrence Quotes

Some people say talent is energy and that's a very interesting way of thinking about it. In other words, people with talent have a lot of energy.

What I need is to express my passion for life... It's movement I'm interested in, the life in me, the life in humanity.

You see, rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force. It's something very essential.

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.

My inspiration is always love and history, and my passion to a fault is craftsmanship and responsibility. Those are the simplest things. It goes beyond jewelry. It's every part of my life.

The more life you have, the more it's in your pores, the more able you are to be creative as an artist.

'Be passionate about your work and your life' was instilled in me by my mother Dada, who was a potter. She also introduced me to the arts and encouraged me to embrace the new.

To write, you need to find what you love.

I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.

Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.

The best stuff is done by people who love it, whether that's high art or low art, whatever that is.

I like to see things that take a lot of time and effort and passion. Which I feel like 'Skins' has.

There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work.

It's important to spend time with your work. That's when you see it, when you have a feeling.

Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel.

Purpose provides activation energy for living.

Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called 'the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.

It does not matter whether you paint, sculpt, or make shoes, whether you are a gardener, a farmer, a fisherman, a carpenter-it does not matter. What matters is, are you putting your very soul into what you are creating? Then your creative products have something of the quality of divine.

Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.

Life is energy, and energy is creativity. And even when individuals pass on, the energy is retained in the work of art, locked in it and awaiting release if only someone will take the time and the care to unlock it.

Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can't do it without that passion.