passionate creativity Quotes

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

Obsession is beautiful. It's what makes art.

I need to let people know who I am and instead of just trying to make great records, just be honest and make it more personal and make it more passionate, to make records with emotion and not be afraid to express that.

The passionate heart of the poet is whirled into folly and vice.

Creative artists have great passion.

Writing is a delicious agony.

Paint with joy - with the same joy that you would make love to a woman.

Let passion be your muse. Let her guide and teach you to trust your instincts.

Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing.

The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.

You can't make love without art.

I don't like the word 'calculated' because it sounds pejorative. Intentional. Intentional is better, I think. Wild in passion and intentional in expression.

Romantic art is the fuel and the spark plug of a Man's soul. It's task is to set a soul on fire and never let it go out.

Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer

In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.

I am profoundly uncertain how to write. I know what I love and what I like, because it's a direct passionate response. But when I write, I'm very uncertain whether it's good enough. That is, of course, the writer's agony.

The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that.

Artists are fiery; they do not weep.

The musings are the same I believe the fire to create burns so heavily that I am never far from a guitar or a fountain pen.

I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things don't make a writer mad, he'll end up writing Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottantail.

I'm convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from a life dedicated to transforming the themes of injustice, grief, and despair that we all encounter during some unavoidable point of our existence into a sustainable life-affirming poetics of passionate creativity, empowered spiritual vision, and inspired commitment.

If I didn't follow my passion for surfing... I would have never come up with the concept to make a wrist camera.