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• Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Self, Soul, Tears

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• It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

  George Gissing

  Love, Heart, Eye

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.98, The Floating Press

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• Too much emotion is like none at all.

  Du Mu

  Emotional, Too Much

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

  Clive Bell

  Trying, Degrees, Function

  'Art' (1914) pt. 3 ch. 3

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• The Flower of My Secret is definitely more based in true emotions. I also wanted to make something more realistic, but not naturalistic or simple.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Flower, Simple, Secret

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• I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.

  Mark Rothko

  Photography, Art, Creativity

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• I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.

  Euan Uglow

  Art, Ideas, Trying

  Catherine Lampert, Richard Kendall, Euan Uglow (2007). “Euan Uglow: The Complete Paintings : Catalogue Raisonné”, p.38, Yale University Press

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• Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

  Goldwin Smith

  Religious, Age, Church

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• I was always the child who wore her emotions on her sleeve.

  Marcia Gay Harden

  Children, Sleeves

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• I love horror movies because they're really fun. They tap into those wonderful primal emotions.

  Margot Kidder

  Fun, Horror, Wonderful

  Interview With Andrew Williams, metro.co.uk. October 27, 2009.

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• Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Music, Sarcastic, Clever

  Quoted in A. E. Hotchner, Papa Hemingway (1966)

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• I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Children, Body, Women's Bodies

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• Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.

  Ted Koppel

  Loss, Perspective, Pay

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• Men are no more immune from emotions than women; we think women are more emotional because the culture lets them give free vent to certain feelings, "feminine" ones, that is, no anger please, but it's okay to turn on the waterworks.

  Una Stannard

  Men, Emotional, Thinking

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• Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

  Mae West

  Love, Art, Instinct

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

  Robert Frost

  Poetry, Found, Great Poet

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• One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counter-forces, like love and compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Compassion, Hatred

  Dalai Lama XIV (2002). “Illustrated Teachings of the Dalai Lama”

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• Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

  John Sterling

  Emotional, Elements, Leading On

  John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.116

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• A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Creativity, Painter

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• 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. The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

  Theodore Isaac Rubin

  Inspirational, Artist, Thinking

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• If one has such an encounter it is to be expected it will bring him into conflict, especially conflict with himself, because one sometimes literally does not know what to do or what not to do. But is this struggle and even the mistakes one may make, not better, and do they not develop us more than if we keep systematically away from emotions?

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Mistake, Struggle, Emotional

  "The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886".

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• One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Sadness, Emotional, Yield

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• If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

  Horace

  Grief, Literature, Firsts

  Horace, Edward Henry Blakeney (1970). “Horace on the art of poetry: Latin text, English prose translation, introduction and notes, together with Ben Jonson's English verse rendering”, Books for Libraries

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• 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.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Art, Giving, Able

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• No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Work, Cows, Way

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.53, Northwestern University Press

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