Quotes About Emotions

I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.

Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive.

Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried to forget anyway, and to ignore the fact that I was remembering you all the time.

People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from.

All our relationships, especially the deep ones, stir up the deepest issues for us that we need to confront and work with.

It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.

I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

To accomplish artistic work, of any individual worth, nature must be seen through the medium of the artist's intellectual emotions.

All grand thoughts come from the heart.

A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it.

Creative expression requires an ability to work with feelings and channel them. Frustration, dissatisfaction, and even a sense of desperation may help you access an eloquence you never knew existed.

I love you as much as you love me... So if you hate me, it works out perfectly.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears with my work. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something.

The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.

I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work as loving; that some people, for whatever reason, never learn the knack

I do not take things to the heart. I calculate and I do what needs to be done. If I were to start acting emotionally, it would destroy my work.

I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci did that. Artists don't always feel the same as others feel about their work.

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.

I feel threatened, and sometimes it makes me angry because I can't do anything about that, there's just too many issues. But in a way I think my work is meant to get people out of that.

If people were possessed by reason, running marathons would never work. But we are not creatures of reason. We are creatures of passion.

The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do.

Even though my work is whimsical. I have a very serious job. I cry more than I laugh.