Quotes About Emotion

Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.

It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us.

It is like the keening sound the moon makes sometimes,/rising.

Nah," I said to myslef, crumpling up the note, "Non vale il pene".

He knew that he'd known her for less than a week, but now that she was gone he was continually probing his feelings for her, the way he might probe a sore tooth with his tongue, engaging her in imaginary conversations, imagining her saying such delightful things.

Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.

fear is excitement without breath

All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.

Color is only beautiful when it means something.

Because we are saturated with life, because we are human, our strongest motive is life, humanity; and the stronger the motive back of the line the stronger, and therefore more beautiful, the line will be.

Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.

I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul

An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.

For an artist to be interesting to us he must have been interesting to himself. He must have been capable of intense feeling, and capable of profound contemplation. He who has contemplated has met with himself, is in a state to see into the realities beyond the surfaces of his subject. Nature reveals to him, and, seeing and feeling intensely, he paints, and whether he wills it or not each brush stroke is an exact record of such as he was at the exact moment the stroke was made.

Pictures tell the story of actual impulse in the artist—or the lack of it.

Fair daffodils, we weep to seeYou haste away so soon.

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score Then to that twenty, add a hundred more A thousand to that hundred so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.

Some people CHASE happiness. And some people CHOOSE happiness...

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

Brain without heart is far more dangerous than heart without brain.

When Handel was asked why his music was so cheerful, he replied, "I can't make any other. I write as I feel. When I think on God my heart is so full of joy that the notes dance and leap from my pen." —George Frideric Handel

This time, as we went over the bridge on the way to the airport, my attorney asked me, "Well, how do you feel now?" I thought about it for a moment, then looked at him and answered, "Intimidating.

La Belle Aurore. The Germans wore gray; she wore blue.

loco!" exclaimed Andy.