“The artist who paints the emotions creates an enclosed world... the picture... which, like a book, has the same interest no matter where it happens to be. Such an artist, we may imagine, spends a great deal of time doing nothing but looking, both around him and inside him.” WorldMayBookMatterHappensArtistInterestDealsEmotionImaginePaintDoing Nothing Author:Pierre Bonnard
“I buy based on emotion, because I am fascinated with an object that I simply cannot live without. Although I often end up acquiring two or three works by an artist who particularly interests me, it's more for fear that a single one might get too lonely.” TwoEndsMightArtistThreeInterestEmotionObjectsLonelySellingFascinated Author:Michael Audain
“All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.” HumansLawInterestCommonEmotionFundamentalsTalesCosmosSignificancePremisesValidityOrganic Life Book:The Classic Horror Stories Source: The Classic Horror Stories
“The full life depends, not on the range of experience but on the intensity of the interest, the emotion involved, and on its being a personal interest.” PassionInterestEmotionDependsInvolvedRangeIntensityFull LifePersonal Interest Book:Singing Waters Source: Singing Waters
“Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn. It will be ill for him if he proceeds no farther; if his emotions are but excited to roll back on his heart, and to be fostered in luxurious quiet. But unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble.” IfsMenFeelsShouldFirstsHeartInterestEmotionAchieveLessonsQuietIllExcitedNobleGenerousSympathyLuxuriousPersonal Interest Book:Critical and Miscellaneous Writings Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Writings
“Do you think it interests me that this painting represents two figures? These two figures existed, they exist no more. The sight of them gave me an initial emotion, little by little their real presence grew indistinct they became a fiction for me, then they disappeared, or rather, were turned into problems of all kinds. For me they are no longer two figures but shapes and colours, don't misunderstand me, shapes and colours, though, that sum up the idea of the two figures and preserve the vibration of their existence.” ThinkingKindLittlesTwoIdeasRealProblemInterestEmotionExistenceFictionFiguresPaintingGrewShapesSightAll KindsPreservesColourInitialsVibrations Author:Pablo Picasso