Quotes About Emotion

We think we should have to work in order to feel. We want to have our cake resist us; and then we want to eat it, too.

Creative work carries with it a form of intense love.

Work makes a callus against grief.

Perhaps he was a fool, but he thought that if a work were truly great you would only have to read it once and you would be stolen from yourself, desperately moved, changed forever.

When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.

If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.

Sometimes, I work a little more from emotion than I do from rational thought.

And to be wroth with one we love…Doth work like madness in the brain.

I rely on music heavily, just in life and in my work.

It all starts from the lyric with me. If I work really hard on the lyric and get it right, then it will tell me whatever else to do, where to go.

Imagery is the most important to me when singing stories. I try to paint pictures with the words and decorate with little to no singing....let the song do the work.

For me, the singer is actually the most important element. When I work with someone, it all comes down to whether I like the singer or not.

Authenticity is what I've always gone after in my work, and I understand what feels emotionally right, instinctively. Working with actors has just come with experience.

Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.

If making an error doesn't make you mad, what's the point? Why put all the work in?

Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.

Each story has a different approach for me and I try to work with lighting that will tell you visually the story better than if it was shot in available light.

In order to work and to become an artist one needs love. At least, one who wants sentiment in his work must in the first place feel it himself, and live with his heart

Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.

It seems that fiction no longer produces work that makes one feel the human condition deeply.

We writers are a crazy group. I can't think of any other profession where the actual work is deep within, uncomfortable, and wanting out.

Your calling and destiny is where your love and hate meet

A film that is a true work of art transcends theatre and heartwarmingly changes lives.

Whenever we've approached a story, it's always started with the character, and the idea of some character struggling with some part of himself. That's what gets us in.