Quotes on Creative Passion

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.