Quotes About Emotion

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.

If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea?

This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one person another's most intimate thoughts and feelings, that it throw open the window of the soul.

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

If you dance with your heart, your body will follow.

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

Perfume is the art that makes memory speak

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling.

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.

I don't believe in an art that is not born out of man's need to open his heart.

Photography is the easiest art, which perhaps makes it the hardest.

Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.

I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

True art lies in a reality that is felt.

Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

There are things that are not sayable. That's why we have art.