“Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.” FeelsShouldArtBookEmotionArt IsTheater Author:Dominique Swain
“Rage properly channeled can definitely give birth to good even great theater. Disgust, a more passive and distancing emotion, is far less likely to. Would you rush to a play called Look Back in Queasiness?” GivingLooksPlayEmotionBirthTheaterRageDisgustingPassive Author:Ben Brantley
“Cinema is a kind of pan-art. It can use, incorporate, engulf virtually any other art: the novel, poetry, theater, painting, sculpture, dance, music, architecture. Unlike opera, which is a (virtually) frozen art form, the cinema is and has been a fruitfully conservative medium of ideas and styles of emotions.” KindHas BeensArtIdeasUseFormEmotionNovelStylePaintingTheaterConservativeArchitectureMediumsCinemaMovieOperaFrozenSculptureDance Music Author:Susan Sontag
“Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.” HumansCan DoEmotionConditionsTheaterIntellectArchitectureHuman ConditionExalted Author:Hugh Hardy
“Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they're emotionally dead.” PeopleFeelsRealityCultureEmotionCenturyTvsDiseaseTheaterPopsSymbolsOperaIdolsInabilityTwentieth CenturySoapSoap OperasMovie TheaterClusters Author:Jim Morrison
“What draws me to theater and religion are these rituals made to make you feel emotion. It's so banal in an interesting way. In visual art it's about making you feel emotional, but it's more subtle.” WayFeelsArtMadeInterestingEmotionEmotionalDrawsTheaterVisualsSubtleRitualVisual ArtInteresting Ways Author:Ragnar Kjartansson
“Sitting in the movie theater watching "Star Wars," I've never had an experience with any form of entertainment that was like that. It was almost spiritual. I couldn't believe that someone's mind created that. And, right, it felt like George Lucas had a piano that was playing my emotions, and he could go ahead and do whatever he wanted and make me lean forward if he wanted, or he could make me go oh, or he could make me hide my face.” IfsMindBelieveWarWantedFacesSpiritualFormStarsFeltEmotionSittingTheaterEntertainmentPianoMovie Theater Author:Will Smith