"All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual." ― Honore de Balzac Topic(s): Art Tags: humanity, passion, without More From Honore de Balzac "Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps." "Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love." "There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile." More In Art "There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face."― William Shakespeare "I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin."― Norma Shearer "To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event."― Henri Cartier-Bresson