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Quotes About Emotion

As American education and intelligence becomes replaced by feelings and emotion, not seeing the forest for the trees has become a major problem.
~ Walter E. Williams
I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.
~ Don DeLillo
All learning has an emotional base.
~ Plato
Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response.
~ April Greiman
It was just like Howlin' Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff.
~ Robert Quine
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.
~ Albert Einstein
Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.
~ Wale
The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions.
~ Unknown
Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.
~ Maurice Ravel
The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.
~ Frank Zappa
If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed.
~ Jojo Moyes
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
~ Carl Jung
If you can't get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you're in the wrong business.
~ Vince Lombardi
Running has made being depressed impossible. If I'm going through something emotional and just go outside for a run, you can rest assured I'll come back with clarity.
~ Alanis Morissette
Curves are so emotional.
~ Piet Mondrian
The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional.
~ Klaus Schulze
Acting is not being emotional, but being able to fully express emotion.
~ Kate Reid
Too much emotion is like none at all.
~ Du Mu
Great art is always a balancing act. But all art has both - an emotional content and an intellectual content.
~ George L. Carlson
I don't like mushiness. I'm a very emotional person but I hate sentimentality. I don't like great demonstrations of emotion. But as I'm getting older, I'm getting much more open about all that.
~ Anthony Hopkins
I don't actually care what I climb, only how it affects me. Which means the summit doesn't matter as much as the emotional process.
~ Mark Twight
If you're feeling emotional when you're creating something, it'll sound that way.
~ Steve Vai
I always wear boot polish on my eyelashes, because I am a very emotional person and it doesn't run when I cry.
~ Barbara Cartland
Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.
~ Lucian Freud