Quotes About Emotion

Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.

The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work.

The movie feels to me like a real work of lovely art.

People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.

I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.

So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.

If you make a great film full of emotion, of pathos, people want to continue to know more, to work harder.

I always loved Alan Menken songs and wanted my first album to be a tribute to him and his work. I always loved his music.

My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

Finn: I look at you because I can't look away Wendy. Wendy: That's kinda creepy. Finn: I will work on being less creepy then.

People who work on soaps all the time understand the formula of how to do it.

Dancing is like making love. It has to be a harmony; it has to be about two bodies. When one is like, "I am the good one," it doesn't work.

W]hat makes a work of art 'good' for you is not something that is already 'inside' it, but something that happens inside you.

Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems.

I think ballads transcend better into my work when I remix something.

Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy.

I have made tremendous efforts to work in a darker register and express the sinister and tragic quality of the place, given my natural tendency to work in light and pale tones.

You can't tell people how to feel when they read your work. You can only hope to connect.

A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice.

The essence of my work, and of me, is the softer side of a strong woman, and that goes into a number of different roles.

I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitation nor calculation.

The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work.

There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just making the work of art.