Quotes About Emotion

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

To photograph: it is to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a Leitmotiv.

Photographier : c'est mettre sur la même ligne de mire la tête, l'oeil et le coeur.

To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeing reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. To take photographs means to recognize—simultaneously and within a fraction of a second—both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis.

If there is one point, it's humanity, it's life, the richness of life. The thing is simply to be sensitive.

Chim picked up his camera the way a doctor takes his stethoscope out of his bag, applying his diagnosis to the condition of the heart. His own was vulnerable.

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

il a commencé à sortir tout un paquet de grandes phrases qui résonnaient sous la voûte, et qui semblaient n'avoir ni queue ni tête, sauf qu'elles avaient bien la queue et la tête et qu'elles voulaient dire toute la colère et la tristesse qu'Oscar avait à l'intérieur de lui […].

C'est tellement triste quand le bonheur s'arrête que je suis pas sûr qu'il vaille le coup.

What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure. It is through it that I best succeed in expressing the almost religious feeling I have towards life.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.

Nothing can be accomplished without love.

I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul

The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist is not to translate an observation but to express the shock of the object on his nature; the shock, with the original reaction.

En vérité, celui qui ne connaît pas la colère ne sait rien».

Base yourself on what you feel, even when you alone feel it.

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.

One may guess the why and wherefore of a tear and yet find it too subtle to give any account of. A tear may be the poetical resume of so many simultaneous impressions, the quintessence of so many opposing thoughts! It is like a drop of one of those precious elixirs of the East which contain the life of twenty plants fused into a single aroma.

Joy is the vital air of the soul.