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• Passion is the breath we take, the water we drink to sustain ourselves. Without air and water we perish; without passion an artist will wither and blow away.

  Jack White

  Artist, Blow, Air

  Jack White (2013). “Methods of Success: Artists fail because of unfounded fear, jealousy, insecurity, not knowing and a lack of confidence. This book will eliminate these lies from your life.”, p.139, Lulu Press, Inc

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• But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes.

  Isaac Watts

  Children, Eye, Hands

  'Against Quarrelling' from 'Divine Songs for Children' (1715)

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• Feeling alone guides the mind.

  Claude Bernard

  Feeling Alone, Feelings, Mind

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.71, Courier Corporation

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• A master passion is the love of news.

  George Crabbe

  News, Masters

  'The Newspaper' (1785) l. 279

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• Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Literature, Stuff

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.135, Cambridge University Press

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• It is really important that young people find something that they want to do and pursue it with passion. I'm very passionate about filmmaking. It's what I love to do.

  Spike Lee

  People, Important, Want

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• You can do films for the fun of it, or the thrill of it, but certain films you can't do unless there's something driving you, something you have a passion for that will pull you through.

  Truman Capote

  Fun, Thrill, Driving

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• I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Humanity, Green, Red

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• Painting, like passion, is a living voice.

  Barnett Newman

  Voice, Painting

  Barnett Newman, John Philip O'Neill (1992). “Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.179, Univ of California Press

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• In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.

  George Meredith

  Plot, Needs, Betrayed

  'Modern Love' (1862) st. 43

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• No amount of technical knowledge and competence is, of itself, sufficient to make a craftperson into an artist. That requires caring - passionate caring about ultimate things.

  Freeman Patterson

  Caring, Artist, Self Sufficient

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• Exaggerated passion combined with enthusiasm has the ingredients to make a prolific artist.

  Don Watson

  Artist, Enthusiasm, Ingredients

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• A great passion has no partner.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Partners, Great Passion

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• To live passionately, we ought to be able to look once again at the people we once cared for deeply and painfully.

  Paul Delaroche

  People, Looks, Able

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• They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

  Marquis de Sade

  Philosophy, Thinking, Light

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• 'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.

  Samuel Richardson

  Kissing, Feelings, Looks

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• I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Winning, May, Fountain

  'Dejection: an Ode' (1802) st. 3

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• Happy are those lovers who, when their senses require rest, can fall back upon the intellectual enjoyments afforded by the mind! Sweet sleep then comes, and lasts until the body has recovered its general harmony. On awaking, the senses are again active and always ready to resume their action.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Sweet, Fall, Sleep

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 2: To Paris and Prison”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in maturer life.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Mistake, Stronger, Energy

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  Every great dream begins with a dreamer.

  Harriet Tubman

  Inspiring, Dream, Black History

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• I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Pain, Names, Laughing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

  Thomas Fuller

  Running, Horse, Men

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• All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Blood, Degrees, Different

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 580-81, Premier Supplement, VIII, 1922.

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• Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Madness, Mere

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too.

  Blaise Pascal

  Mean, Mind, Clarity

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