Quotes About Emotion

Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.

A nation's art is the expression of its soul.

Art is a hot soup in this cold world!

All art is about appealing to emotion.

Art is many things but, directly or indirectly, it always describes the human condition.

Art is ultimately schizophrenic.

What draws me to theater and religion are these rituals made to make you feel emotion. It's so banal in an interesting way. In visual art it's about making you feel emotional, but it's more subtle.

Art is what is unnecessary, but necessary only to that artist.

Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.

What's great about art is that if you can reach people, if they hear or see what you do and it moves them, there's a commonality.

The art isn't there to be purchased - it's there to be enjoyed.

We go see theater, we take in art because it makes us feel.

I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.

Art is what is irresistible.

Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.

Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving up the notion of the nobility of art.

Listening to great music and art inspires me and recharges me.

Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial only when the forms take precedence over the emotion.

Art that only comes from the head isn't any good. Watch any good musician and you'll see what I mean.

Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.

"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music.

Art does not explain.

What does a painter do? You get a painting, you put some intent and passion and emotion into these things, and hope the people will receive it. Same as a playwright. It's art.

The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of metaphor, story, myth, the arts.