Quotes About Emotions

Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand.

Art is just as comprehensible as science, but in its own terms.

That's what art is, shocking people. Sometimes shocking yourself.

If I like a person, I like them. I may like the art and not like the person.

What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.

Art should stimulate.

Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.

You can choose to be mad in a negative way where it fuels you to do mean, hateful things, or you can let your madness fuel your art and channel it in a positive way.

Someone told me once that to create true art you must be willing to bleed and let others watch.

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

I went to college at North Carolina School of the Arts and took a lot of singing classes, and it really is so connected to emotions.

Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.

Country music is a form letter. You fi ll in the blanks. You move from one broken heart to the next one and from this marriage to that divorce, from a beating here to a beating there.

I get to cry to Barbara Walters, when things don't go my way. I'll get community service no matter which laws I break.

We need grief as a precursor to emotional refreshment, and so consume it vicariously in somewhat titrated but powerful enough form through engagement with the arts.

A lot of people who get into any art form have some form of mental..something in their head which is unstable

To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call one's basic self-worth into question.

I'm a fool to keep staying, when you've made hurting me such an art.

Music is reflection of self.

I learned how to have a little bit of distance when I explained songs and a little bit of distance when I wrote them. I think this is more interesting any way in art.

It's not our art, but our heart that's on display.

On this hapless earth There 's small sincerity of mirth, And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of the heart.

I wanted to make a traditional record that had a lot of art and showed my vulnerable side and showed things I'm passionate about.

We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.