Quotes About Emotion

Going to the darkest place you can to make yourself really upset and adding that with the physicality and running around, you can work yourself into hysteria that way.

A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis.

Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.

The work all comes from a psychological need. See the images that I make... It's really a psychological need. I'm just jerked around by it. I'm pulled by it.

It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.

I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.

Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work.

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

The less apparent the means and manner of the artist, the more directly will his work appeal to the understanding and the feelings.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does

I'm not interested in telling a story in my photographic work. I'm more interested in freezing certain moments in time.

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

At first when I realized I was a romantic, I was sort of shocked and shamed. But it is true... that the material I work most with is emotion.

Meeting and talking to the artist adds a special element to collecting contemporary art that makes the work an irreplaceable treasure rather than just another possession.

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability

Screw the Rangers, and screw the Devils; I work for the Islanders now, and I could care less about them!

The work I care about is terribly simple. I observe. I try to entertain. But above all I want my pictures to be emotional. Little else interests me in photography.

A work of art is a confession.

"The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away."

I hate to work out. I get in a bad mood when I have to do it!

Love can't be a metaphor anymore. If you try to make literature out of it, it doesn't work.

I was a big "Blue Valentine" fan. I really loved that movie. And I thought the performances were just unbelievably real, which is certainly what I always strive for in my work.

Attractive things work better When you wash and wax a car, it drives better, doesn't it? Or at least feels like it does.