Art Passion Quotes

I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting.

Kanye is a student of art. He's an art-school-dropout type of kid that will talk about art till the cows come home.

Art was a huge passion of Jeff's from a very early age. He took a few lessons one summer. He always had a huge passion for art. Loved Dali. Jeff drew and sketched constantly.

I always wanted to act. I am very passionate about the art. So when I got the opportunity, I was more than happy.

I really just started buying art as a passion. I never considered it an investment, but it ended up being a good investment.

I may not be much good at most things, but if I didn't have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and doing it better than anyone else, I would have stopped buying art many years ago.

This new art made a deep impression on me, and I began to study it ardently.

A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy.

My Scottish grandfather, John W. Blyth, was a man addicted to paintings. A manufacturer of linen, he spent all his surplus money on pictures.

I've never said, 'I live for art.'

I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. I spend a lot of time in museums; I particularly like the Guggenheim, MoMA in New York or LACMA and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, for example. I cannot wait for the Louis Vuitton Foundation to open.

There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art.

Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it.

Once I found art, it was a wrap.

I love art; I collect mostly modern art.

The industry needs to be run by artists, because we are the only people that care about art.

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

I collect art like other people eat pizza. I can't get enough of it. I need a constant source of inspiration.

Most museums in Moscow, like Tretyakov, were established by philanthropists, whose passion for art allowed the development of culture on many levels.

In the end I'm in love with it [Western European easel painting]. And that's where a lot of the influence from the work comes from.

When I was about seven, one or two people encouraged me, and art became an enormous and important refuge. By adolescence, I was absolutely passionate about it and felt those paintings and those painters, whether they lived a few hundred years ago or were still alive, were somehow my companions.

Lately, I've discovered the Hellenistic bronzes. I'd never really thought about them much, but then there was this marvelous exhibition - many of them Roman, some of them Greek, all kinds of wonderful standing figures or heads or horses. It all suddenly became a passion of mine. I finally got to see that exhibition, which led to the idea of bringing up the statue in the film.

I love art, but I've never bought an artwork or even considered it.

I paint every day. I really have no hobbies. That's all I do.

I'm so in awe of what visual artists do and I do understand the differences of what visual artists do. I have a small art collection I hope to expand.