Quotes About Expression

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.

People just tell me I'm supposed to be sensitive, and I'm not. But I think I'm very emotional. I'm very caring.

You need emotional content.

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional.

What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.

I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.

There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.

I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental.

Photographing is an emotional thing, a graceful thing. Photography allows me to wander with a purpose.

Every ambiguous, false, tearful, emotional exaggeration brings about that typically kitsch attitude which could be defined as "sentimentality."

It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble.

Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain.

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

I'm an emotional creature. I make music to express that.

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.

I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.

Language that tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction, something that can not be said.

We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.

Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.

ALL ART, OF COURSE, IS INTELLECTUAL, BUT FOR ME, ALL THE ARTS, AND CINEMA EVEN MORE SO, MUST ABOVE ALL BE EMOTIONAL AND ACT UPON THE HEART.

A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.

Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril