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“The true test of all the arts is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it answers the end of art, which is to produce a pleasing effect upon the mind.”

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Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

“Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.”

Ends Hands Reality Moving Emotion Magic Effects Window Opening Uplifting Fleeting Slam Lingering Duh

Author:Yann Martel

“A landscape painting is essentially emotional in origin. It exists as a record of an effect in nature whose splendour has moved a human heart, and according as it is well or ill done it moves the hearts of others.”

Humans Wells Heart Done Moving Emotion Records Effects Emotional Painting Moved Ill Landscape Human Heart Splendour Landscape Painting

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“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.”

“In 1974 I nearly got into a fistfight with some early academic feminists in a restaurant when I casually alluded to a hormonal element in sex differences. It was utterly unacceptable at that time to think or say such a thing... If you have any doubts about the effect of hormones on emotion, libido and aggression, have a chat with a transexual, who must take hormones medically. He or she will set you straight.”

Ifs Thinking Sex Differences Emotion Doubt Effects Elements Feminist Restaurants Academic Aggression Hormones Time To Think Libido Sex Differences

Author:Camille Paglia

“Dwelling beside a body of water is tonic for the weary psyche. Sea smells, sea birds, seawrack, sands - alternately cool, warm, moist and dry - a taste of brine and the presence of the rocking, slopping bluegraygreen spit-flecked waters, has the effect of rinsing the emotions, bathing the outlook, bleaching the conscience.”

Body Water Emotion Sea Effects Taste Bird Conscience Warm Smell Dry Sand Weary Outlook Dwelling Spit Bathing Bodies Of Water Sea Birds Bleaching

Book:Isle of the Dead ; Eye of Cat

Source: Isle of the Dead ; Eye of Cat

“... we do not remember people as they were. What we remember is the effect they had on us then, but we remember it through an emotion charged with all that has since happened to us.”

People Remember Emotion Happened Effects

Author:Storm Jameson

“Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others - its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.”

World Emotion Knowing Path Effects Hatred Know Yourself Overlooked Adverse Underestimated Adverse Effects

Author:Kevyn Aucoin

“An enormous amount of art and literature is erotic in the sense that it stimulates vague sexual emotions, but it has no pornographic intention or effect because "it leaves everything to the imagination." The consumer has to invent his own images, and it is felt, I do not know with what justification, that there is no harm in this.”

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Book:To Hell With Culture

Source: To Hell With Culture

“The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers.”

Has Beens Real Spirit Courses Emotion Effects Anxiety Uncertainty Depressing Publishers Calamity

Author:Richard Curtis

“Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions; music has thus the power to form character, and the various kinds of music based on various modes may be distinguished by their effects on character.”

Men Kind May Character Feelings Form Emotion Effects Various Rhythm Melody Accustomed Distinguished

Author:Aristotle