One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art.
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
As a director, the biggest job is to discern the imperfections in emotional tone and then view it in the global picture of what you're trying to do, if that makes sense. It's a rhythm, like music is a rhythm or composition and art is a rhythm. Dialog...
Death was a leech; no matter which side of the spectrum you were on, either dead or alive, it fed. It either acquired your soul or devoured all your joyful emotions.
He doesn't have anything like wisdom of age or hindsight. He's a biased historian of self, an emotional revisionist. We all are, for the most part.
The thoughts of Man build future worlds, whilst the emotions of the Fey build up this, our Natural World.
I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying.
Cherish your own emotions and never under-value them. We are not here to do what has already been done.
Pity. What a useless emotion when you don't act on it. Pity is supposed to trigger compassion.
...as if in rebellion, certain emotions become amplified at the exact moments when you are expected not to feel them at all.
Strength is not just in muscle and bone," Rovender said "That is right," Soth added. "Emotional strength is more powerful.
Sometimes you had a better shot with a jury, that body of ones “peers” who make decisions with their emotional brains; especially if your client was guilty.
My name had become a brand. (I have mixed emotions about that part of our (Christian media) industry, for sure.)
She could and had faced an armed laser in the hands of a mad mutant mercenary with less fear than she faced such unswerving emotion...
Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity
His rules were thus: One, resist when beneficial to the cause. Two, dignity before humiliation. Three, don’t show true emotions.
Language has been mobilised and sent into battle; it directs the human carnage of conflict with its enunciation of emotion, stimulating souls to abandon peace.
A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.
One of the greatest gifts from God is the eternal perspective. It is a level of fearlessness, a level of understanding where one can experience even emotional harmony with God.
Have I told you that you are my every dream?" Her eyes shimmered. Her voice went smoky with emotion. "Not recently.
