Quotes About Emotion

Art is the daughter of pleasure.

But what is art other than revealing human nature?

Art without color would lose much of its purpose.

Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.

I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.

Cinema is an art form.

I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.

Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.

Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

Art arises from the interaction of the mind and the heart.

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

IN CINEMA IT IS NECESSARY NOT TO EXPLAIN, BUT TO ACT UPON THE VIEWER'S FEELINGS, AND THE EMOTION WHICH IS AWOKEN IS WHAT PROVOKES THOUGHT.

All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.

Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.

The rhythm is below me, the rhythm of the heat. The rhythm is around me, the rhythm has control. The rhythm is inside me, the rhythm has my soul.

All great art is a form of complaint

Art is what separates us from the animals.

Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent that you really can't articulate.

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.

I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.