The word passion comes from the Latin patior, meaning to suffer or to endure. These days, losing its uncomfortable roots, passion is a feeling of unusual excitement, enthusiasm or compelling emotion toward a subject, idea, person or object. Here's how to get it:
Revisit and repossess your core dreams and fantasies.
Consider your dreams to be private, unique and sacred.
Get help from and watch the actions of the already passionate.
Indulge, honour and live in your own imagination.
Don't talk about it, do it.
See your passion manifested into action or production.
This is direct from The Painter's Key.
This got me thinking that I wanted to speak about this subject too. I post my paintings, which are captured moments in time of my passion! My passion towards color, shapes, line and form all combined telling either a story or showing how my imagination translates a subject. Passion is the "permission" slip to exploration and the discovery of our true self. To find what it is I and all of us really want.
I want to be a full time artist and give up my day job. Passion is the key that will eventually get me there. With my passion or anyone else's there are sacrifices. I am usually in the studio early hours of the morning when everyone is still asleep. My weekends consist of hours devoted to my work. I have to give up a lot to pursue my passions. To me it's no sacrifice for my art is my life line. It is the fuel that keeps me alive!
When in the passion of process I have no idea what is going on around me! I am beeming with excitement. Energy is endless as though I am not even of this world. When the passion dies down, as does the flames in a fire, I can be still and reflect and listen.
I share this passion in the form of paint because it excites me so much that I want others to feel the same excitement. It's contagious.
Passion is like for those who have children, we would do ANYtHINg for them. Climb a mountain if we had to, and some of us do figuratively. Sacrificing everything if need be for the happiness and well being of them. This passion towards our children is the same passion we have inside us for ourselves. The compass that will lead you to find true happiness.
