“Every work is completely different. Sometimes the music is first, sometimes it's parallel, and sometimes the music is after. There's no rule. Music goes differently to your emotions. With music you can create different spaces and feelings easier than you can with the visual - maybe not easier, but in a way, it's more seductive.” WayFirstsDifferentSometimesFeelingsSpaceEmotionEasierMusic IsVisualsParallelsSeductive Author:Pipilotti Rist
“What's required of me in the field is to feel,' Stirton says with emphasis. 'And trying to take that feeling and put it in a form that communicates a particular set of emotions or circumstances - whether that involves depicting masculine pride, or a particular kind of suffering, or love, or closeness - my primary job is to feel and to try to put that feeling into some kind of visual form. My goal is to get to the heart of each story, you know? I’m trying to evolve in my work.” KnowsFeelsTryingHeartKindStoriesFeelingsJobsFormSufferingGoalEmotionFieldsParticularPrideCircumstancesCommunicatePrimariesEvolveVisualsEmphasisMasculineCloseness Author:Antonella Gambotto-Burke
“taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. Nothing is more decisive. There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion - and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.” PeopleHumansWellsKindIdeasEmotionMoralityTasteResponseVisuals Author:Susan Sontag
“You've got to bring the emotion, and you have to understand that you can't touch other people if you're not touched. You can't move other people if you're not moved. So if you're just giving some frickin talk you've memorized over and over again, you're going to have a flat affect. If you've just got a bunch of visuals on the screen that are leading your talk, hang up your shoes and get the hell out of there.” PeopleIfsGivingMovingEmotionHellMovedShoesScreensBunchVisualsTouchedFlatsHang Ups Author:Tony Robbins
“What quality is shared by all objects that provoke our aesthetic emotions? Only one answer seems possible— significant form. In each, lines and colors combined in a particular way; certain forms and relations of forms, stir our aesthetic emotions. These relations and combinations of lines and colors, these aesthetically moving forms, I call ‘Significant Form’; and ‘Significant Form’ is the one quality common to all works of visual art.” WayArtSeemsMovingFormCertainLinesAnswersCommonEmotionQualityObjectsParticularColorRelationSignificantCombinationVisualsAestheticProvokingVisual Art Author:Clive Bell
“Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture.” CultureNaturalEmotionConsequenceVisualsPornographySentimentalityFragmentedNatural Consequences Author:Marshall McLuhan
“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