The real purveyors of the news are artists, for artists are the ones who infuse fact with perception, emotion, and appreciation. . . We are beginning to realize that emotions and imagination are more potent in shaping public sentiment and opinion than information and reason.
For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. I think it's just a natural human response to loss.
Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.
My biggest problem with organized religion is that God has been imagined as a human being with emotions. I feel if you let go of that, then it's possible to see God as a force, to connect to him or her spiritually.
When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.
My concern 99% is about the storytelling, the emotion and all this. I never think about the format of anything until way far in the process and when we arrive to the fabrication of the thing then we start to say, "Okay right, what is the best thing we can do. " I choose the car before to choose the color.
I'm mad emotional. But my emotions are - I don't really get just like sad, I get hyper, and I be like mad, and I get hungry - that's like my main emotion.
When she was like this, the wildness of her barely contained, it was hard to believe she'd come into his pack Silent, her emotions blockaded behind so much ice, it had infuriated his wolf.
By nature, most people are controlled by their emotions. They feel sad, so they look sad.
Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.
No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.
Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.
It's not just something that you do intellectually when you do music. You do it with your body, and you do it with your emotions, and you do it with every part of yourself. It engages your mind as well, but engages all parts of yourself.
Mozart resolved his emotions on a level that transformed them into moods uncontaminated by mortal anguish, enabling him to express the angelic anguish that is so peculiarly his own.
We have lost contact with man's natural desire for the exalted, for a concern with our relation to absolute emotions.
I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.
Animals do have emotion. But fear tends to be one of the most primal emotions.
There are a hundred or perhaps a thousand other emotions, or gradations, created by the mixing, blending, and overlapping of the basic ones.