Quotes About Emotion

I was moved no end by the work of LaVern Baker.

With all its variety and liveliness, color acts in the work of art as blood does as it circulates through our bodies. Color is what keeps the painting alive and moving.

The work of the artist is to heal the soul.

To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.

I work from the people that interest me, and that I care about, in rooms that I live in and know. I use the people to invent my pictures, and I can work more freely when they are there.

I finally feel content with my work. My fruit has started to ripen. I'm able to dissect emotion properly and distill it into a song that reverberates in a truthful place.

End up blowing all of his wages for the week, all for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek.

As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a child, a great work of art, or falling in love.

To me, horror and comedy never work. Never worked for me, anyway.

The head governs, the heart assists, the body acts.

Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this.

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.

It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.

Love's a recurring theme through my work.

His eyes search the crowd until they find my face. My heartbeat lives in my throat; lives in my cheeks. "I still don't understand," he says softly, "how she knew that it would work.

Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.

I create with my heart, so life and work inevitably intersect all too often.

At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.

I've always believed that the range or depth of emotion can be great, whether you're play a three-minute piece, or a half-hour work.

The moment when one first meets a great work of art has an impact that can never again be recaptured.

Action alone doesnt work in Germany - you need an emotional element to the story.