Quotes About Emotion

Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in peoples minds with emotion.

I don't really see art as structured by logic.

Poetry is the most bodily of the arts.

This might end up in crying. If you're not prepared to cry about it, I'm not sure you're making art. And if you're not prepared to dance in anticipation, you're definitely not making art.

A good piece of art should make a revolution inside you.

Poetry is a totally different art than film.

In a way, art has always been my way of problem-solving, of getting through situations, of finding my response to things, so to imagine doing something else makes me panic a little bit.

Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.

The rain is sharp today, as you shock me sane.

In the domain of art there is no light without heat.

What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.

Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.

Don't burden art with words and ideas. Art comes from a deeper place.

Art that wants to be felt does not have the need to be admired.

Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.

Forgot the blush that virgin fears impart To modest cheeks, and borrowed one from art.

My heart is turned to stone; I strike it, and it hurts my hand.

Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way... things I had no words for.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine

You need feeling, emotion, to create. You can't create out of indifference.

Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.