Emotion Quotes - Page 10

• The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they're in a good mood.

  Eddie Murphy

  Kids, Want, Cry

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• All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.

  Graham Chapman

  Attitude, Ideas, Sparks

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• Change your mental imagery, and the feelings will take care of themselves.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Feelings, Care, Imagery

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.158, Penguin

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• Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Building Up, Feelings, Artistic

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• Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Emotional, Abuse

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.237, Transaction Publishers

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• The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, / Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed / Ere it gives forth the fragrance you wish to extract.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Weed, Heart, Men

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• I want feelings to be expressed, to be open, to be natural, not to be looked on as strange. It's not weird if you feel deeply.

  May Sarton

  Feelings, Want, Strange

  May Sarton, Earl G. Ingersoll (1991). “Conversations with May Sarton”, p.121, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.

  Henri Matisse

  Drawing, Tree, Copying

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.149, Univ of California Press

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• I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths beneath appearances.

  Auguste Rodin

  Artist, Doe, Truth Is

  Auguste Rodin, Paul Gsell (1983). “Rodin on Art and Artists: Conversations with Paul Gsell”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.

  Denis Diderot

  Moving, Heart, Eye

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• But our gusty emotions say to me that we have / Tasted heaven many times: these delicacies / Are left over from some larger party.

  Robert Bly

  Party, Heaven, Delicacy

  Robert Bly (2013). “Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected and New Poems, 1950-2013: Selected Poems, 1950–2011”, p.167, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There is something wrong with you if you don't get angry about something.

  Elvis Costello

  Angry, Ifs

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• There's always been anger in the making of music or literature or dance.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Literature

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• I want to draw and study a few things closely by feeling, not thinking.

  Marion Milner

  Thinking, Feelings, Want

  Marion Milner (2011). “A Life of One's Own”, p.27, Taylor & Francis

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• The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets this down in color and line as simply and as powerfully as possible and so translates his impression into an aesthetic emotion.

  David Milne

  Color, Trying, Lines

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• A landscape painting is essentially emotional in origin. It exists as a record of an effect in nature whose splendour has moved a human heart, and according as it is well or ill done it moves the hearts of others.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Moving, Heart, Emotional

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• We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion that marks the contemplation of a work of art.

  John F. Carlson

  Art, Wonderful, Failing

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.118, Courier Corporation

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• Emotion doesn't have to be happiness.

  Rex Brandt

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• Brush and ink are only servants of thoughts and emotion. They should follow your emotion and change with the emotion.

  Wu Guanzhong

  Ink, Should, Brushes

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• To make an artwork good enough to enter people's hearts is like what ancient Chinese called 'making stone into gold.' It is alchemy.

  Li Shan

  Heart, People, Chinese

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• My aim is a continuous, sustained, uncontrived image, motivated by nothing but passion.

  Rico Lebrun

  Passion, Motivated, Aim

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• Look within. The heart is the foundation of virtue; and it is for eternity ready to do virtuous works.

  Paul Delaroche

  Heart, Foundation, Looks

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• We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art

  Maurice Ravel

  Art, Real, Remember

  Maurice Ravel, Arbie Orenstein (1990). “A Ravel Reader: Correspondence, Articles, Interviews”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

  Marya Mannes

  Happiness, Intelligent, Emotional

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied

  Cyril Connolly

  Reason, Violent, Occasional

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