In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a 'culture of compassion.' On the other hand there still exists in many parts of the U.S. if not nationally an attitude towards the concept of justice which can only be described as a 'culture of vengeance.'

We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day.

Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways is on this short day of frost and sun to sleep before evening.

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.

With care and skill and cunning art She parried Time's malicious dart And kept the years at bay Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate implicit morality not didactic. A morality which changes the blood rather than the mind.

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

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda and entertainment without moral passion is television.