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Quotes About Emotion

When we are bursting with some wordless experience, Art is our voice, the song of the heart.
~ Richard Schmid
There's a grand-canyon sized gulf between explanation and experience.
~ Unknown
somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near
~ e. e. cummings
Observing someone without context amplifies the experience. The more we know, the less we are able to feel.
~ Chuck Klosterman
Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.
~ Clive Barker
don't just describe an emotion, arouse it, make them experience it, by manipulating the symbol of the emotion, and sometimes we have to come into awareness through the back door.
~ Tom Wolfe
Art, for me, has always been a ticket for experience.
~ Shahzia Sikander
Try to catch a trout and experience the glorious feeling of letting it go and seeing it swimming away.
~ Billy Connolly
You are a lover of your own experience ... not of me ... you turn to me to feel ur own emotion
~ Rumi
Everything that happens to me, I experience it really intensely. I feel it very deeply.
~ Fiona Apple
Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
~ Susan Sontag
A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience.
~ Shomei Tomatsu
To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.
~ Alice Sebold
Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
~ Ambrose Bierce
One of the most powerful energies you can ever experience is gratitude.
~ Joe Vitale
Painting has always been a healthy and happy place for me to create. People really like that experience and so do I.
~ Unknown
I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything. I just want (the audience) to have an experience that moves them.
~ Andy Garcia
My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience.
~ Sharon Olds
Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.
~ Olaf Stapledon
For me, I'd rather have an intense experience than not.
~ Joaquin Phoenix
I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
~ Zoe Kazan
Grave of the Fireflies is an emotional experience so powerful that it forces a rethinking of animation... It belongs on any list of the greatest war films ever made.
~ Roger Ebert
Art is an emotional experience
~ Tony Curtis