Quotes about Emotional Resonance

There's art that I would readily buy if I could afford it, and enjoy, but would never write about because it doesn't seem significant.

Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look and listen.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

I am bothered by poems I don't understand.

A piece of art that speaks to you can open windows in a room you hadn't even known was dark.

And yet, in terms of its emotive potential, I still find art more attractive, currently, than books, which fail at a deeper level.

I love the smell of pastels...that breaths life into my soul.

To speak your Heart outnothing can be better than Night and Acoustic guitar !!

Art speaks to the soul, not the mind.

All literature and popular art contain themes that resonate with the audience.

There is always something I gain from watching a movie, whether it's a silly romantic comedy or an art film.

No doubt the [presedential] campaigns have reflected some anxiety, anger, and resentment in the nation at large, and we must try to understand these attitudes in the electorate.

In a way, I pick out the films that have a same attitude as music that I like.

It would cut into him at unpredictable moments, like a gutting knife made of colored light.

Music, like a human being, has a soul, a heart, a mind, and a skeleton.

There's a kind of Ah-ha! Somebody at least for a moment feels about something or sees something the way that I do. It doesn't happen all the time. It's these brief flashes or flames, but I get that sometimes. I feel unalone—intellectually, emotionally, spiritually. I feel human and unalone and that I'm in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness in fiction and poetry in a way that I don't with other art.

I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear

Love me or hate me, both are in my favor. For if you love me I will always be in your heart; if you hate me I will always be in your mind.

Music, moody food Of us that trade in love.

The poor soul sat singing by a sycamore tree. Sing all a green willow: Her hand on her bosom, her head on her knee, Sing willow, willow, willow: The fresh streams ran by her, and murmur'd her moans; Sing willow, willow, willow; Her salt tears fell from her, and soften'd the stones; Lay by these: Sing willow, willow, willow; Prithee, hie thee; he'll come anon.

The music in my heart I bore Long after it was heard no more.

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There's no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

Every one of Joel's important songs--including the happy ones--are ultimately about loneliness. And it's not 'clever lonely' (like Morrissey) or 'interesting lonely' (like Radiohead); it's 'lonely lonely,' like the way it feels when you're being hugged by someone and it somehow makes you sadder.