“I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths beneath appearances.” DoeArtistEmotionTruth IsAppearanceGrantsVulgarHidden Truth Book:Rodin on Art and Artists: Conversations with Paul Gsell Source: Rodin on Art and Artists: Conversations with Paul Gsell
“Beauty is the highest of all these occult influences, the quality of appearances that thru' the sense wakeneth spiritual emotion in the mind of man.” MenMindSpiritualEmotionQualityInfluenceHighestAppearanceOccult Author:Robert Bridges
“The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the context in which it has been evoked.” Has BeensFeelingsNaturalEmotionObjectsEssentialsIndependentAppearanceMeaningless Author:Kazimir Malevich
“to tempt and be tempted are closely allied; and in spite of all the finest moral maxims buried in the mind, when emotion interferes, when feeling makes its appearance, one is already much further involved that one realizes, and I have still not learnt how to prevent its appearance.” MindStillsFeelingsRealizingEmotionMoralInvolvedAppearanceTemptationSpiteBuriedInterfereFinestTemptedMaxims Author:Catherine the Great
“Tears may be considered as the natural and involuntary resource of the mind overcome by some sudden and violent emotion, before ithas had time to reconcile its feelings to the change in circumstances: while laughter may be defined to be the same sort of convulsive and involuntary movement, occasioned by mere sur prise or contrast (in the absence of any more serious emotion), before it has time to reconcile its belief to contradictory appearances.” MindMayFeelingsBeliefNaturalEmotionCryMovementTearsSeriousCircumstancesLaughterResourcesOvercomingMereAppearanceAbsenceViolentDefinedContrastContradictoryReconcileInvoluntary Book:Lectures on the English Comic Writers Source: Lectures on the English Comic Writers
“[Photography] is always like a state of grace, like the appearance of something that I hadn't foreseen, that surprises me and stops me. If I only did what I had in mind, there would be no emotion. It would be like keeping one's eyes shut rather than open, like theorizing rather than seeing.” IfsMindStatesWould BeEyeEmotionGraceSeeingPhotographySurpriseAppearanceSurprise MeForeseen Author:Sarah Moon