“Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.” ArtI CanFactsGuyDyingEmotionalInstrumentsMusicalPianoPiano PlayingMusical Experience Author:Jon Bon Jovi
“If it's physical pain, you just deal with it the best way you can. But if it's more emotional, I don't know. I just try my best to feel it, take it in, and just allow myself to go through whatever may actually come from it. And then a certain amount of it, you can use to transform it through art, which is the healthy way of dealing with it, as well.” IfsKnowsWayFeelsTryingWellsMayArtUsePainCertainDealsEmotionalAmountHealthyBest WayPhysical PainDealing With It Author:Reggie Watts
“We need grief as a precursor to emotional refreshment, and so consume it vicariously in somewhat titrated but powerful enough form through engagement with the arts.” NeedsArtEnoughFormPowerfulGriefEmotionalEngagementRefreshmentsPrecursor Author:Catherine Wilson
“For the book to succeed, it has to have equal parts ugliness and beauty, counterpoints adding up to emotional complexity. To me, there's a dignity in letting your art be emotionally complex.” ArtBookEmotionalSucceedEqualArt IsDignityComplexesComplexityUgliness Author:Joshua Mohr
“I was always an emotional, tearful kid. As a child I was really focussed on my fine art - I took it very seriously. I really wanted to be a master painter. I didn't think I'd ever become a musician because I was so shy.” ThinkingChildrenArtKidsEmotionalMusicianPainterShyFine Arts Author:Marissa Nadler
“What I am most proud of with the book On to the Next Dream is how I turned an intensely emotional experience into art. Anyone can run up to a rooftop, tear off their clothes, and scream about how screwed up the world is. But for the people down below, all they see is a person losing their mind. I wanted to make something that channeled that emotion in a way that elicited an empathetic response from the reader. So that after you read this book, you would want to run up to the rooftop and scream about how screwed up the world is.” PeopleWorldMindArtBookDreamRunningEmotionTearsEmotionalProudLosingResponseScreamEmpathetic Author:Paul Madonna
“Art uses many different styles, but his voice is very consistent. He's always concise and clever and funny. That's true of somebody like Chris Ware, who has an emotional quality to his work - but it's boiled down and it's very sober and spare. Each word has great weight. Comics are not just pictures, but it is graphic design in the sense that they are composed and architected in a specific way.” ArtDifferentQualityStyleDesignEmotionalCleverConsistentSoberGraphic Author:Francoise Mouly
“Contemporary art often plays to the part of us that is very uncomfortable with not being sure, that cannot maintain a state of 'don't know'. The over-prioritising of meaning gets in the way of just experiencing the art in a more sensual way. Judging quality purely from an intuitive emotional response needs more confidence and experience than just working it out like a crossword clue.” ArtQualityEmotionalJudgingResponseSensualUncomfortableClue Author:Grayson Perry
“The Mona Lisa, to me, is the greatest emotional painting ever done. The way the smile flickers makes it a work of both art and science, because Leonardo understood optics, and the muscles of the lips, and how light strikes the eye - all of it goes into making the Mona Lisa's smile so mysterious and elusive.” ArtDoneEyeEmotionalPaintingMysteriousElusiveEmotional PainArt And ScienceLeonardoMona Lisa Author:Walter Isaacson
“Psychological factors are vital. We don't learn how to improve our emotional intelligence. Even in ancient cultures, such as the Greeks, cultivation of the art of being able to enter a state of awareness that is deeply blissful, and beyond thought and feeling as such. Many people have become disillusioned with religions and, as such, have turned away from pursuing anything spiritual. That create a loss of sense of purpose and a lot of anger. Sure, there are all sorts of problems with organised religions, but there are also all sorts of problems with the world of 'science' too.” PeopleWorldArtFeelingsProblemSpiritualPurposeCultureLossAwarenessEmotionalAncientPsychologicalGreekDisillusioned Author:Patrick Holford
“I do think music and the arts are imperative for our kids for their creative learning and their emotional education, which breeds better adults. I'm doing what I can to try and pick up the slack and I applaud anyone who tries to give back to their community.” ThinkingGivingTryingArtKidsCommunityCreativeEmotionalGiving Back Author:Sarah McLachlan
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.” GivingArtPhilosophyReligionValuesFriendshipRelationshipEmotionalFriendsSurvivalNovelistsUnnecessaryGood FriendReal FriendsMy Best FriendTrue FriendshipBest FriendMy FriendshipAbout FriendshipNew FriendsLove And FriendshipFriendship LoveFriendship MemoriesLost FriendshipOne Line FriendshipEssayistsBest FriendshipFriendship DayFriend LoveGreat FriendshipFemale FriendshipLasting FriendshipFriends And EnemiesNew FriendshipOne FriendFriendship GardenHappy Friendship DayFriends For LifeCircle Of FriendsDeep FriendshipBeing A Good FriendThat One FriendSweet FriendshipGood FriendshipFemale FriendsAwesome FriendshipFriendships And RelationshipsHeart Touching FriendsMeaningful FriendshipUnique FriendshipSweet FriendHeart Touching FriendshipCelebrating With FriendsI Have No FriendsThank You FriendshipNice FriendSongs And FriendshipNice FriendshipValued FriendsTouching FriendshipMeaning Of FriendshipValue Of Love Author:C. S. Lewis
“It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philosophy towards sports, something that I really truly live by. I am emotional. I want to win. I am hungry. I am a competitor. I have that fire. But deep down, I truly enjoy the art of competing so much more than the result.” WantArtPhilosophyMightWinningSportsEnjoyLosesResultsFireEmotionalHungryLive ByCompetingCompetitorsInspirational SportsDeep DownWin Or Lose Author:Apolo Ohno
“People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsHumansArtImportantLevelsTeachKnow HowEmotionalSkillsDepthMathInteractionOptionalCalculatorsMath Skills Author:Hal Sparks
“That is what is wrong with cold people. Not that they have ice in their souls - we all have a bit of that - but that they insist every word and deed mirror that ice. They never learn the beauty or value of gesture. The emotional necessity. For them, it is all honesty before kindness, truth before art. Love is art, not truth. It's like painting scenery.” PeopleArtSoulValuesBitsLove IsKindnessHonestyEmotionalPaintingColdMirrorsDeedsIceGesturesSceneryArt Love Author:Lorrie Moore