“It all depends on the directors. Working closely with a director is the main job of a film composer. Interpreting what he perceives as a color, an emotion or mood is very abstract. A director tells you something he wants and then you have to run back...” WantRunningJobsFilmEmotionColorDependsDirectorsMoodPerceiveAbstractComposerInterpretingFilm Composers Author:Danny Elfman
“There are opposing forces in all living things. My work reflects this and stirs up a contrast of emotions in the viewer... perception versus annoyance. To the viewer who has reached that level of awareness, my work is no longer abstract, but very real.” RealForceLevelsEmotionAwarenessPerceptionAbstractContrastViewersVersusLiving ThingsOpposingAnnoyance Author:Eugene J. Martin
“Delacroix, Wagner, Baudelaire - all great theorists, bent on dominating other minds by sensuous means. Their one dream was to create the irresistible effect - to intoxicate, or overwhelm. They looked to analysis to provide them with the keyboard on which to play, with certainty, on man's emotions, and they sought in abstract meditation they key to sure and certain action upon their subject - man's nervous and psychic being.” MenMindMeanPlayDreamActionCertainEmotionMeditationSubjectsEffectsKeysNervousCertaintyAnalysisAbstractBentPsychicsIrresistibleKeyboardsDominatingTheoristsSensuousWagnerBaudelaire Author:Charles Baudelaire
“How many of the people I know - sons and daughters - have intricate abstract expressionist paintings of their mothers, created out of their own emotions, attitudes, hands. And how many have only Polaroid pictures of their fathers.” PeopleKnowsHandsMotherFatherEmotionAttitudePaintingSonDaughterAbstractIntricateSon And DaughterPolaroids Book:At Large Source: At Large
“Death can be successfully put out of mind for the simple reason that it is beyond human experience. Death is either the abstract concept of nonexistence or the emotion of fear.” MindHumansReasonDeathSimpleEmotionConceptsAbstractHuman ExperienceFear Of Death Author:Lidiya Ginzburg
“Another problem of fragmentation is that thought divides itself from feeling and from the body. Thought is said to be the mind; we have the notion that it is something abstract or spiritual or immaterial. Then there is the body, which is very physical. And we have emotions, which are perhaps somewhere in between. The idea is that they are all different. That is, we think of them as different. And we experience them as different because we think of them as different.” ThinkingMindSaidIdeasDifferentFeelingsProblemBodySpiritualEmotionNotionAbstractDividesFragmentation Author:David Bohm
“I'm not in any way trying to make statements that are not also invaded by emotions and abstract ideas that I don't really understand myself. It's more interesting when I can do that.” WayTryingI CanIdeasCan DoInterestingEmotionStatementsAbstract Author:Jenny Hval
“Poetry, for example, goes so deeply into the space between corporeal affect and deep emotion (even primal in some cases) that, as Emily Dickinson said, it can blow the top of your head off. Poetic language is sometimes misunderstood as "abstract" when in reality, it's precise - precisely the language of emotions and the body.” SaidSometimesBodyRealityLanguageSpaceEmotionCasesExampleBlowAbstractPoeticPreciseMisunderstoodPrimalEmilySpace BetweenDeep Emotions Author:Lidia Yuknavitch