Quotes About Emotion

There are no words to adequately express my gratitude to the people.

Music speaks to people in a way that breaks down boundaries that words and actions sometimes can't.

There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

As a cinematographer, I was always attracted to stories that have the potential to be told with as few words as possible.

Words can have the same kind of magic as riffs can.

Mime is an art beyond words. It is the art of the essential. And you cannot lie. You have to show the truth.

There are no words to describe my feelings for Errol Flynn.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff for a while. I just love the way people threw words around like they were painting.

Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.

Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.

The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won't let you.

An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words.

The play is not in the words, it's in you!

There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.