Quotes about Emotion

As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.

Have you not seen that in our days Of any whose story, song or art Delights us, our sincerest praise Means, when all's said, 'You break my heart?

Art should be pretentious. The place to be sincere is in one's relationships.

That's what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call "personality", or maybe even "pain".

Attitude and the spirit in which we communicate are as important as the words we say.

Attitude: It is our best friend or our worst enemy.

Attitude is an inward thought that wiggles its way out.

I have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. Laugher to me is being alive. I have had rotten times, and I have laughed through them. Even in the midst of the very worst times I have laughed.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme.But Money gives me pleasure all the time.

Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.