Emotion Quotes

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.

How hard could it be? Is it really going to hurt? You get into that deep well of emotion if you are by yourself. Why am I here? What's the point of going on? If I can't do what I want to do, then what's the point?

You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.

Real emotion is good - or doing a good job of faking real emotion.

Every song is something that I've been through or an emotion I've felt - like falling in love or heartbreak.

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.

Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.

Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.

As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all.

I just love real characters, they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface.

We're all capable of anything as human beings. Any emotion, any action. We really are.

All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.

Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.

So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes.

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.

The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.

There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism.

Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.

I just saw the emotion in everything, so I got to feel everything that was going on and that I was viewing, but I couldn't think in terms of structure, which is the whole point of deep focus.

I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

Janis Joplin is definitely one of my biggest influences. She taught me how to feel music, and I don't think there's anyone like her that could bring such pain and emotion to a song.

Opera tells stories through the pure emotion of music. An exhibition has to tell a story purely visually. I've tried to incorporate both of those things - pure emotion and being more visual - into my writing.

I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy to find but it's still there.