Quotes About Emotion

I think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon.

Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement.

Art never lies, I believe.

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

Devoid of all romance, the music plays and everyone must dance. I'm bowing out.

Any art which can be subjected to an analytical process is, by this very fact, removed from the possibility of being art.

Music is a savage art, a measured madness.

I'm inspired by anything. Not even just art, just anything that's real and vulnerable.

Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly.

Art without heart is craft.

Sometimes people save the best part of themselves for their art.

A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.

If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.

I think after music is performance because it is also an immaterial form of art, and then there's everything else.

I always talk about the hierarchy of art, and I always put music on the top of everything, because it's so immaterial.

Pain is not a conduit to art or joy

Performance became part of my art in a way - expressing things and emotion.

The artist had captured a moment that went on suggesting other moments in the mind of the beholder. This, Timmon told me, was what every painter, every singer, every craftsman sought to create.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thou art a dreaming thing, A fever of thyself.

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.

Im inspired by throwing out any darkness that is inside of me. For me, art cures.

Tragedy is the highest form of art.

I expect art to make me scream, art to reveal soul.