Quotes About Emotion

Songs were the place he took his loss and turned it into something else. Which may not have been the same as grieving, but it was something.

Titian, Tintoretto, and Paul Veronese absolutely enchanted me, for they took away all sense of subject.... It was the poetry of color which I felt, procreative in its nature, giving birth to a thousand things which the eye cannot see, and distinct from their cause.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

He is indeed the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

He never even talked of love; but there are modes of making it more eloquent than language, and which convey it subtilely and irresistibly to the heart. The beam of the eye, the tone of voice, the thousand tendernesses which emanate from every word and look and action - these form the true eloquence of love, and can always be felt and understood, but never described.

la ternura de su naturaleza estaba en efervescencia, y que sólo necesitaba un objeto.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.

And if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate...

Color directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another purposively, to cause vibrations in the soul.

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.

That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul.

With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the "skill" (as one admires a tightrope walker), enjoy the "quality of painting" (as one enjoys a pasty). But hungry souls go hungry away. The vulgar herd stroll through the rooms and pronounce the pictures "nice" or "splendid." Those who could speak have said nothing, those who could hear have heard nothing.

Music is the ultimate teacher.

Form itself, even if completely abstract ... has its own inner sound.

That is beautiful which springs from inner need, which springs from the soul

to stand in front of some of his drawings or pictures gives a keener and more spiritual pleasure than any other kind of painting.

the relationships in art are not necessarily ones of outward form, but are founded on inner sympathy of meaning.

Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.

How dangerous a master human emotion is!

Don't you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.

I hoped being aware and appreciative would never leave me. I guessed that feeling that way in the moment was appreciation enough.

It is important to become aware that at every moment of our life we have an opportunity to choose joy. . . . It is in the choice that our true freedom lies, and that freedom is, in the final analysis, the freedom to love." HENRI NOUWEN

He choked back tears, but he felt a great swelling of pride most of all. Antoinette, Robby-they had done it. They had made the right decision.