"Passion + production = performance."
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"Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense of the past."
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"The man who gives way to anger, or hatred, or any other passion, cannot work; he only breaks himself to pieces, and does nothing practical. It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work."
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"I could ramble on forever, I just love photography. It's my passion, it drives my family crazy. I live it and breathe it."
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"Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions."
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"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master."
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"I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs."
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"Passions change, politics are immutable."
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"Create the temperature of your passion!"
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"Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ."
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"A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do."
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"Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity of passion, and directness of impulse. Not width but intensity is the true aim of modern art. We are no longer in art concerned with the type. It is with the exception that we have to do. I cannot put my sufferings into any form they took, I need hardly say. Art only begins where Imitation ends, but something must come into my work, of fuller memory of words perhaps, of richer cadences, of more curious effects, of simpler architectural order, of some aesthetic quality at any rate."
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"She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy."
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"The hunger of passions is the greatest disease."
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"The passions often engender their contraries."
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"People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her."
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"Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth."
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"In the contemplation of beauty we are raised above ourselves, the passions are silenced and we are happy in the recognition of a good that we do not seek to possess."
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"My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule."
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"Incapacity to appreciate certain types of beauty may be the condition sine qua non for the appreciation of another kind; the greatest capacity both for enjoyment and creation is highly specialized and exclusive, and hence the greatest ages of art have often been strangely intolerant. The invectives of one school against another, perverse as they are philosophically, are artistically often signs of health, because they indicate a vital appreciation of certain kinds of beauty, a love of them that has grown into a jealous passion."
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