“The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue of emotional experience. It's the weight of our consciousness of the world, a shortness of breath in our soul.” WorldSoulConsciousnessWorstProduceEmotionalWeightBreathsAbstractFatigueShortness Author:Fernando Pessoa
“I wanted to make abstract films that are emotional, and I still do.” StillsWantedFilmEmotionalAbstract Author:George Lucas
“Nature or, that which I see, inspires me, puts me, as with any painter, in an emotional state so that an urge comes about to make something, but I want to come as close as possible to the truth and abstract everything from that, until I reach the foundation, still just an external foundation, of things.” WantStillsStatesNatureEmotionalInspireFoundationPainterAbstractUrges Author:Piet Mondrian
“The abstract has no emotional content... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is.” PowerfulEmotionalAbstractAbstract Expressionism Author:Cecil Balmond
“I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level I want to be at when I'm writing. Writing is much more intellectual and indirect and abstract, in a way.” ThinkingWayWantWritingLevelsEmotionalMusic IsIntellectualDirectAbstractSimilarityIndirect Author:Karl Ove Knausgard
“Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional.” ArtEmotionalArt IsAbstract Book:Musicophilia Source: Musicophilia