“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
“Perfect beauty implies perfect simplicity, a quality that at first sight does not arouse the emotions which we feel before gigantic works, objects whose very disproportion constitutes an element of beauty.” FeelsFirstsDoePerfectEmotionQualityObjectsElementsSightSimplicityPerfect Beauty Author:Eugene Delacroix
“The sense that a man is serving a Higher than himself, with a service which will become ever more and more perfect freedom, evokes more profound, more humbling, more exalted emotions than any thing else in the world can do. The spirit of man is an instrument which cannot give out its deepest, finest tones, except under the immediate hand of the Divine Harmonist.” MenWorldGivingHandsSpiritCan DoPerfectEmotionDivineHigherInstrumentsProfoundToneServingFinestEvokeExaltedHumbling Book:Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations Source: Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations
“It's okay that we're not perfect. It's okay that we all have problems. It's okay to cry, to show emotions.” ShowsProblemPerfectEmotionCryOkayNot Perfect Author:Marina Abramovic
“Artists say that paintings are never done. I sort of feel the same way about music. I would never say something is perfect. There are performances that can generate a lot of emotion in me when I hear them, but I can't say if anything is perfect.” IfsWayFeelsI CanDoneArtistPerfectEmotionPaintingPerformances Author:Jimmy Page
“Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing.” MindRealNamesPerfectEmotionPerfect ThingsReal True Author:Ruth Rendell
“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
“There are women to whom nature has granted the gift of silent emotion. They have mobile faces, changeful eyes, soft lips, which express joy or desolation naturally, and with the charm of perfect simplicity and truth.” EyeFacesJoyPerfectEmotionSilentSimplicityLipsGrantedCharmMobileDesolation Author:Sarah Doudney
“The Language of Sand has something for everyone: myths, mystery, community, humor, grief, and ultimately healing. I found myself not only rooting for Abigail but for the whole community of Chapel Isle. Block manages to hold sass and heartfelt emotion in perfect equilibrium.” WholeFoundLanguageCommunityPerfectGriefEmotionHealingMysteryMythBlockManageSandEquilibriumHeartfeltChapelIsleSassAbigail Author:Brunonia Barry
“I think the underlying purpose is expression. It's not about technique, it's not about hitting the right note, writing the perfect prose, having the perfect brushstroke. It's about expression of oneself, the things around you, and the emotions. I think expression is the one word that I would use, whether it's for sorrow, tragedy, joy, or even the need to express and be heard.” ThinkingNeedsWritingUseJoyPurposePerfectEmotionHeardExpressionSorrowTragedyNotesOneselfTechniqueProseHittingOne Word Author:Charlie Albright
“Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator.” FoundPerfectEmotionProduceMastersBalanceIdealsOverwhelmingSpectatorsIllustrationPerfect BalanceOverwhelming Emotions Author:Francis Bacon
“We didn't want to do that. It would have been a beautiful moment in the movie but it would have brought the movie down. So Danny's vision was perfect I think when he wanted it to be driven at the same time having this new emotion about this boy coming as a hallucination or like a déjà vu and as the future kid.” ThinkingWantHas BeensMomentsKidsWantedBeautifulPerfectEmotionVisionBoysDrivenHallucinationsBeautiful Moments Author:A. R. Rahman
“There are certain scenes, certain hills and valleys and groves of pines which demand that a story shall be written about them. I would refine; I would say that the emotions aroused by these external things reverberating in the heart are indeed the story; or all that signifies the story....We translate a hill into a tale, conceive lovers to explain a brook, turn the perfect into the imperfect.” HeartStoriesCertainTurnsPerfectEmotionWrittenLoversSceneDemandTalesHillsValleysImperfectTranslateBrooksGroveHills And Valleys Author:Arthur Machen