Quotes About Emotion

Can you name a single great work of art which is not about conflict?

I sense you in the secret of all the paintings I love. I hear you stumbling at the stony core of the only books I read, the few I know how to read.

La poésie est active dans toutes les formes de création. C'est elle qui en fait la beauté, laquelle est un éveil, un cri d'alarme.

At present, I am particularly excited by "bad taste." I have the deep feeling that there exists in the very essence of bad taste a power capable of creating those things situated far beyond what is traditionally termed "The Work of Art." I wish to play with human feeling, with its "morbidity" in a cold and ferocious manner.

Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.

For nearly 40 years Johannes Meintjes has enriched the South African art scene with his personalised works which have the inherent quality of good art - the artist's genuine feelings and moods can be felt in each brush or palette stroke…

And when I found your flesh did not resist, It was the living spirit that I kissed.

The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.

I am very selfish, really. I lived for love.

It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.

Man ... heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand...heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her.

One never forgets faces one wholeheartedly detests.

One can only describe the human but can never define it because humans are complex in their nature."

To an artist, creating an image means being in love with it.

What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturbation ... whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.

Marriage is meant to be a very sacred union between two people who have no intention of ever becoming emotionally or physically tied to another person for the rest of eternity. Most people mean their marriage vows when they take them, but oftentimes--these days more often than not, according to statistics--the initial commitment begins to wane and ultimately dissipates altogether. We live in a time when most people who get married before they turn thirty are merely doing a practice run.

A phrase from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil came to mind: "Two tears in a bucket. Motherfuck it.

Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.

Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.

David, I'll fly for you, if you'll love me!" "Fly, then." "I can't fly, but love me anyway." "Poor wingless child!" "Is it so hard to love me?" "Do you think you are easy, my illusive possession?

Since we first met I have loved you with whatever I had to love you with.

I do not want to live. I want to love and then to live, incidentally.

I've tried so many times to think of a new way to say it - and it's still I love you - love you - love you - my Sweetheart.

Kiss me, lover. One darling kiss.