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A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. -- Hans Hofmann
We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art. -- Maurice Ravel
I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions. -- Rachel Roy
Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story. -- Diane Paulus
Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing. -- Nile Rodgers
Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being. -- Luis Barragan
I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen. -- Lukas Foss
You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport. -- Garry Kasparov
Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things. -- Dominique Swain
To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big or small. -- Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic. -- Marco Tempest
Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it'll be good, and the public will know it. -- John Wayne
Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. And I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion. -- Greg Lake
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art. -- Remy de Gourmont
I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. -- Giuseppe Verdi
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. -- Camille Paglia
If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty. -- Piet Mondrian
Melodrama is one of the most stunning art forms. These are stories where the emotions are big, and the situations are big, and the artists believe in the situation dramatically. There's no irony or distance. -- James Gray
Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated. -- Wassily Kandinsky
The fact that biological, or 'natural' rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art. -- Steven Levy
art is emotion without desire. -- Muriel Barbery
All art is about appealing to emotion. -- Michael Moore
Art is Knowledge at the service of emotion. -- Jose Clemente Orozco
To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art. -- Isadora Duncan
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art. -- Mae West
Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion. -- Grace Hartigan
Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty. -- Eli Broad
I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion. -- Greg Lake
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. -- Paul Cezanne
Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
Art is not emotion. Art is the medium in which emotion is expressed. -- Nadia Boulanger
I endeavor to trigger positive, empowering, life-giving emotion - I believe art is that powerful. -- Gary Holland
Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art. -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art. -- Clive Bell
Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand. -- W. Somerset Maugham
The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form. -- Francois Delsarte
[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. -- Albert Einstein
Art is the reflection of pure emotion and mind, the nature of sensation. An artist illustrates that. -- Unarine Ramaru
We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art -- Maurice Ravel
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. -- Oscar Niemeyer
Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion. -- Miguel
I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion -- Isaac Albeniz
Art that has depth makes a strong impact on the spirit, emotion, mood and thoughts of a human being. -- Li Shan
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. -- Jean Cocteau
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. -- Thomas Hardy
All art, in spite of the struggles of some critics to prove otherwise, is based on emotion and projects emotion. -- Louise Bogan
Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. -- Georges Braque
My personal philosophy is that you do art to experience emotion that you don't have the luxury of experiencing in real life. -- Kinan Azmeh
I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art. -- Sean Scully
The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy. -- Clive Bell
The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy." -- Clive Bell
Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in peoples minds with emotion. -- Rachel Cusk
Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion. -- Rachel Cusk
I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art. -- Oscar Wilde
The purpose of all art is to cause a deep and emotion, also one that is entertaining or pleasing. Out of the depth and entertainment comes value. -- W. Eugene Smith
The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion we call works of art. -- Clive Bell
The art which speaks to a universal audience concerns itself with the 'big' questions of life and death, and delivers its message with unrelenting and powerful emotion. -- Scott Kahn
All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life. -- Oscar Wilde

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