Quotes About Emotion

You belong in the most secret part of you. Don't worry about cool, make your own uncool. Make your own, your own world. If you fear, make it work for you—draw and paint your fear and anxiety.

Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.

Love is the essence of life; love touches all of our work. Love never leaves us. It clings to us, and we cling to it.

All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.

Rest in reason. Move in Passion.

Every true work of art must express a distinct feeling.

When you manage to express something with a look and the music instead of saying it with words or having the character speak, I think it's a more complete work.

A work of art doesn't have to be explained.

Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.

Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.

A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling.

I use poetry to help me work through what I don't understand, but I show up to each new poem with a backpack full of everywhere else that I've been.

I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood. Anyone who looks at my works must be able to sense that.

I think you have to use your eyes as well as your emotion, and one without the other just doesn't work

To complete a work is just like being present at the death of someone you love.

Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.

The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power.

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

Paint is a very sensual material. It's lovely to work with and lovely to look at.

You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read it. The work of art-sculpture or painting-forces your eye.

I Wish I Could Give You A Taste Of The Burning Fire Of Love. There Is A Fire Blazing Inside Of Me. If I Cry About It, Or If I Don't, The Fire Is At Work, Night And Day.

It's not my intention to shock, to offend, sensationalise, be political or whatever; only to make work that is as spiritually meaningful as I can make it-whatever the medium.

Love is what makes me live, quite simply. It's the only thing that makes me work. It made me become what I am today.

But the dance speaks to everyone. Otherwise it wouldn't work.