“The primary function of art is not to imitate or represent or interpret, but to create a living thing; it is the reduction of all life to a perfectly composed and dynamic miniature - a microcosm where there is perfect balance of emotion and intellect, stress and strain resolving itself, form rhythmically poised in three dimensions.” ArtFormThreePerfectEmotionBalanceArt IsFunctionStressIntellectPrimariesDimensionsStrainLiving ThingsReductionMiniaturesMicrocosmPerfect BalanceThree Dimensions Author:Lawren Harris
“The elegant study... is consistent with the themes of modern cognitive neuroscience . Every aspect of thought and emotion is rooted in brain structure and function, including many psychological disorders and, presumably, genius. The study confirms that the brain is a modular system comprising multiple intelligences, mostly nonverbal.” EmotionBrainStudyModernGeniusAspectFunctionStructureIncludingPsychologicalThemeConsistentDisorderRootedMultipleNeuroscienceElegantCognitiveThoughts And EmotionsNonverbalMultiple IntelligencesStructure And FunctionPsychological Disorders Author:Steven Pinker
“In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic function to color.” WayTryingUseEmotionColorExpressionFunctionInfinityBlankCanvasBlank Canvas Author:Guido Molinari
“There's design and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!” IfsLooksArtDifferentSufferingPerfectEmotionDesignArt IsFunctionHarmonyDesignerBranchesLeafsGood Design Author:Diane von Furstenberg
“I think of fear as a survival function, and in the stories that I write, the only thing that I've tried to do is provide people with nightmares which are really safe places to put those fears for a while because you can say afterwards that uh, that, that well it was all just make-believe anyway, so I just took my emotions for a walk.” PeopleThinkingWritingBelieveWellsStoriesWalksEmotionSafeSurvivalFunctionNightmareMake BelieveSafe Places Author:Stephen King
“Studies by Andrew Newberg and others have shown that long-term practice of meditation produces significant alterations in cerebral blood flow in parts of the brain related to attention, emotion, and some autonomic functions.” LongTermEmotionAttentionBrainPracticeStudyMeditationBloodProduceFlowFunctionSignificantLong TermRelatedAndrewCerebralAlterationsBlood Flow Book:Hallucinations Source: Hallucinations
“Adolescents, for all their self-involvement, are emerging from the self-centeredness of childhood. Their perception of other people has more depth. They are better equipped at appreciating others' reasons for action, or the basis of others' emotions. But this maturity functions in a piecemeal fashion. They show more understanding of their friends, but not of their teachers.” PeopleSelfReasonShowsActionUnderstandingEmotionTeacherChildhoodFashionPerceptionAppreciateFunctionBasesDepthMaturityInvolvementEmergingSelf CenterednessCenterednessPerception Of Others Author:Terri E Apter
“I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer - is the peculiar function of poetry.” ThinkingFeltEmotionReaderFunctionPeculiarVibrationsTransmitCorresponding Book:Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)
“My all-time favorite topic in positive psychology is the study of positive emotions. I'm fascinated by how pleasant experiences, which can be so subtle and fleeting, can add up over time to change who we become. I'm especially excited these days about investigating how positive emotions change the very ways that our cells form and function to keep us healthy.” WayFormEmotionStudyPsychologyHealthyFunctionAddExcitedAll TimeCellsThese DaysPleasantSubtleFascinatedTopicsFleetingPositive PsychologyInvestigatingPositive EmotionsAll Time Favorite Author:Barbara Fredrickson