Quotes About Emotion

Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art - to raise the genius and to mend the heart.

When I see a beautiful piece of art, it inspires me to be creative.

Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.

Ah, but art and trouble go hand in hand. If you cannot be troubled to create art from your heart, then your art will never trouble the heart of others.

The ordinary is ultimately what moves us most deeply. It's what touches us, and it's what we most recognize, in great moments of art.

All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion.

You took a pretty picture and you smashed it into bits, sank me into blackness and you sealed it with a kiss.

Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music.

Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.

Colour can be the true main thing in art that is widely valued – even valued by the maker of the art – for other meanings.

All important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being.

More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it.

Photography is an art of teleporting the past into the future.

Nothing else exists when art does.

I had danced when I was younger, until I was about 12, and I always idealized it, as most young girls do, as the most beautiful art. It's an expression without words.

Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of

Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.

Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small.

I think you put art out into the world, and sometimes it's divisive, sometimes it's embraced. Sometimes people cry, laugh or have complicated reactions.

I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.

Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.

And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.

Music is the perfect type of art.