Love For Art Quotes

I think the greatest photographers are the amateur photographers who do it because they love it. Arnold Newman is a good example; he is a consummate professional, but he's also an 'amateur' in the pure sense of the word.

I love the art of acting, so whether I do it on film with a million people seeing me or I do it in front of 20 people in a class showcasing my art, I am going to act whether anyone sees it or everyone sees it.

There's nothing wrong with using the money that you earn to be daring and buy art that you love or that you think is beautiful.

My father is so in love with making movies, and he'sso charismatic about it, that it's hard to be around him withoutwanting to make movies.

If it's just a pastime, keep doing it because it's relaxing and to blow off some steam. But if you're not sure if you want to do it, or you're thinking you can be famous, you shouldn't do it because you want to be famous. You have to do it because you love it and you want to play for people. And if that's what you want to do, then do it, but you can't go into it with that mindset of "we'll be in a band and we'll be famous."

It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess if he hopes to attain perfection? That inwardness which the spectator must share if he is to understand the work as the artist wishes and hopes... Believe me, talents are like virtues; either you must love them for their own sake or renounce them altogether. And they are only recognized and rewarded when we have practised them in secret, like a dangerous mystery."

At the end of the day, I just do my job. I love my art.

Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands.

And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them from the fire, and sought them when they were lost, and tried to preserve them and save them while passing them along literally from hand to hand, singing out brilliantly from the wreck of time to the next generation of lovers, and the next.

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.

I don't feel like I'm putting records out because I have to. It's just my art and I love it.

That's something I can never lose: my love for the art of rap. As I grew older and became more interested in song writing, it just pushed my possibilities further. I always have to have a foot firmly on the floor as a rapper, because that's how I started.

There are a lot of things about Russian culture, art, music, photography and literature that I'm love with.

I want people to say about me, 'I know he's making music because he loves it.'

I live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels.

I've been in this business for a long while, but it's not like I've been waiting tables. Since I started writing, I've only worked on things that I love. I've had a lot of heartbreak, but you don't become an artist and not expect that.

As I create art, it is like a love affair. My days go by loving what I do.

I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.

Some people love money, and some people love other things. I love music, and we are all lovers.

It is difficult to read the reviews when you start because you see something in your collection and the press sees something else. That is when you have to be very strong about your own style. They can say whatever they want, but I do what I do because I love it.

The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don’t really love music or art the way we do. We won because we personally love music.

You have to give every portion of yourself to it. As an artist, that is just what you do - because we love it - we were born to do it.

To be able to inspire somebody just by doing something that you love, just by creating your art, is something that's very near and dear to my heart.

You go to New York or L.A., and every waiter wants to be a writer, director or actor. But there's a common thread: everybody wants to do it because they love it.

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.