Quotes About Emotion

Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about.

All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

Don't be afraid of expressing what you really mean in your art, what you really feel. Say it visually, as strongly as you can. Push as far a reach as you can, then go all the way!

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

Art is an international language, understood by all.

Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life when every other aspect of civilization fails.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

I feel like when I fight it's an art, and Art isn't supposed to be 'nice', it isn't supposed to be liked. It's supposed to make you feel something.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.

What makes a tight circle or a tight little square box more of an intellectual statement than something done emotionally, I don't know. Art is an essence, a center.

To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art.

Art is not about something, Art is something

A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling.

In art, everything is particular. The more particular and the more intimate you get, the more you can give in the piece.

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.

Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art.