“When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.” WayFeelsLongI CanLanguageSoundEmotionPiecesEmotionalFlowFocusedFinishedRhythm Author:Taiye Selasi
“Hitler ... lacked the [inclination] for anything more than the occasional sensational display of emotion, in particular the great set-piece speech which mesmerized the mob and left him drained of ... energy.” EnergyLeftEmotionPiecesParticularSpeechDisplayInclinationOccasionalDrainedSensationalMesmerized Author:John Keegan
“It is the way of youth that each fresh piece of knowledge of life should go to its head, and that once uplifted by an emotion it can never have enough of it.” WayShouldEnoughEmotionPiecesYouth Author:Stefan Zweig
“Readers must be given room to bring their own emotions to a piece so crammed with emotional content; the writer must tenaciously resist explaining why the material is so moving.” MovingGivenRoomsEmotionPiecesEmotionalMaterialsReaderExplaining Author:William Zinsser
“As a pianist, our particular role is to enter a piece and its logic and create a particular interpretation from our understanding. The most important thing for the performer is, after all, to create a special atmosphere - we enter the composer's feelings and emotions and recreate them freshly for a given audience.” ImportantFeelingsGivenUnderstandingEmotionRolesAudiencePiecesSpecialParticularLogicImportant ThingsAtmosphereInterpretationPerformersComposerFeelings And EmotionsPianist Author:Rafal Blechacz
“The clothes that fire up my emotions are colorful and "different" pieces. My eye still picks out gilded-cloque glamour from among Burberry's streamlined trench coats or a hand-printed coat from Dries Van Noten.” StillsDifferentHandsEyeEmotionFirePiecesClothesPicksCoatsVansPrintedGlamourColorfulTrenchesGildedTrench Coats Author:Suzy Menkes
“How can you be afraid to feel? Isn't fear a feeling? If you're feeling fear, you've felt one of the most negative emotions there is to feel. Everything else should be a piece of cake. Feel good, feel happy, feel healthy, feel loved, feel abundant, feel creative, feel compassionate, feel knowledgeable, feel powerful.” IfsFeelsShouldFeelingsFeltFearPowerfulEmotionCreativityCreativePiecesHealthHealthyNegativeHappyFeel GoodCakeCompassionateKnowledgeableNegative Emotions Author:Bashar al-Assad
“I never sing a song more than twice because my fear of waning excitement for a piece is part of my troubles. I so rely on vibe, energy and emotions that the technical part occurs to me last.” LastsSongEnergyEmotionPiecesTroubleExcitementRely Author:Shelby Lynne
“I've always believed that the range or depth of emotion can be great, whether you're play a three-minute piece, or a half-hour work.” PlayThreeHoursEmotionHalfPiecesMinutesDepthRangeAlways BelieveHalf Hours Author:Anne Akiko Meyers
“When I auditioned actors I never make them act. I choose a long symphony, then I tell them to sit down and I play the symphony for them. Then I sit and I look at them. I always pick a piece of music that has up and downs, very dramatic parts, very quiet parts and really sensitive parts so that it can produce different emotions.” LooksLongDifferentPlayActorsEmotionPiecesProduceQuietPicksDown AndSensitiveDramaticSymphonyUps & DownsDifferent Emotions Author:Pirjo Honkasalo
“When Clark Gable, MGM's most popular and famous leading man asked for a percentage of the profits from his films, he was flatly refused. A top executive was reported to have said, He's nobody. We took him from nobody. We lavished him with lessons and publicity and now he's the most desired man in the world. Who taught him how to walk? We straightened his teeth and capped them into that smile. We taught this dumb cluck how to depict great emotions, and now he wants a piece of the action? Never!” MenWorldWantSaidActionFilmWalksEmotionPiecesTaughtLessonsProfitTeethDumbExecutivesPercentagesPublicityMgm Author:Jeanine Basinger
“I was trying to release emotions, exercise emotions, and then I entered the art world. Even after grad school, some of [the earlier works] were still lingering in my head. I realized there were some pieces where I felt that I had to respond to the criticism.” WorldTryingArtStillsSchoolFeltEmotionPiecesExerciseCriticismI RealizedReleaseArt WorldLingeringGradGrad School Author:Kalup Linzy
“The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion.” HumansActingEmotionPiecesRootsSculptureHuman Emotions Book:Sanford Meisner on Acting Source: Sanford Meisner on Acting
“Fortunately I don't want to be part of the mainstream. When I see a Kiki Smith work, for example, she's very contemporary, and I feel a lot of emotion in each of her pieces; I think she understands our time, and she makes really interesting art because of that.” ThinkingWantFeelsArtInterestingEmotionPiecesExampleArt IsContemporaryOur TimeMainstreamReally Interesting Author:Luis Gonzalez
“When you're feeling down, did you know that you can change it in an instant? Put on a beautiful piece of music or start singing - that'll change your emotion.” KnowsFeelingsBeautifulEmotionPiecesSingingInstantDid You KnowFeeling Down Author:Bob Proctor
“I want my music to be something that people use in order to access parts of themselves. So in that sense, every piece I write is about all emotions at once, about the lines in between. It's never only about one thing or another. It's emotionally getting at those things that we can't really describe - things for which we don't have labels. So yes, it's about something, and it has a use. It's neither about nothing nor about something concrete - it's about what you bring to it as a listener.” PeopleWantWritingUseOrderLinesEmotionPiecesOne ThingAccessLabelsConcreteListeners Author:Missy Mazzoli
“As an actor in the classroom, you're revealing so much, and teachers are, you know, they're just critiquing like a painting or a piece of work; it's like, it's you, and it's your emotions that they're working with.” KnowsActorsEmotionTeacherPiecesPaintingWorking ItClassroomRevealing Author:James Franco