Quotes About Emotion

Dancing's not work. You can't call it work. A day I don't dance is a day I don't live.

At school I'd want to be so small that nobody could see me, and so my work depicts and reflects me - what it felt like to grow up in a world of pain.

It was truly revealing. The strength of the intervention, the intensity of colors and the happiness of this work, has never left me.

Love is dangerous, if you know it's dangerous, that makes you treasure it, and you'll work harder to keep it.

Every time I read Erin Belieu work I'm pierced in that wonderful way poetry can.

If your hand doesn't work for it, your heart doesn't feel sorry for it.

Joy is something that we have to choose and then work for.

I put my heart in my work.

I presume my work has also always been about reduction without any distraction or after effects, outside emotions, or intimacy or complicity with the subject.

What I love about doing musical work is that it heightens the emotion.

In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime itself.

How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.

Great imaginations are apt to work from hints and suggestions, and a single moment of emotion is sometimes sufficient to create a masterpiece.

Music is a big influence in my work and sometimes drives the energy of where I want to go.

Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work.

I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art.

It is a very powerful feeling to know that my work is affecting people and to hear it from them directly.

Plant medicines work beyond the physical response; sometimes, it's your spirit or emotion that needs healing, and plant medicines can address that also.

An idea that will translate really well musically should work visually. I try to write music that you can feel if you were to close your eyes you can see what I am talking about.

Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them.

A work of art expresses itself as a balance sheet pitting the spoken against the unspoken.

There are no personal revelations other than feelings arising from the work itself

Sad songs seem to work for me, but I don't want to be redundant; I want to add a little flavor.

Anger is an emotion that is very energetic. It is an ideal emotion to turn it around to make it work as a positive force.