Quotes About Art

I'm an emotional creature. I make music to express that.

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.

Language that tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction, something that can not be said.

ALL ART, OF COURSE, IS INTELLECTUAL, BUT FOR ME, ALL THE ARTS, AND CINEMA EVEN MORE SO, MUST ABOVE ALL BE EMOTIONAL AND ACT UPON THE HEART.

I write emotional algebra.

I think dancing is an emotional experience.

Artists are the emotional historians of the world.

What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.

An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.

I wanted to make abstract films that are emotional, and I still do.

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.

Without emotional content we make pictures; with it, we create art.

It's very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don't really have that much control with it.

I'm simply saying that our deepest thoughts, desires and preoccupations manifest themselves in art, whether we intend them to or not. That's what art is for; it's not cerebral, it's emotional.

There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.

A one woman cabaret of emotional impressionism

The abstract has no emotional content... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is.

Filmmaking, at the end of the day, is a business and a balance must be struck between that and emotional ties.

My real motivation came from my desire for music videos to have the same equal soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does.

It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.

I was drawn to acting because it was the one place that I found an emotional outlet.

Kitsch offers instantaneous emotional gratification without intellectual effort, without the requirement of distance, wihtout sublimation.

In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.

All art is concerned with the creation of an emotional reaction on the part of the beholder.