“First and foremost, I'd say my father, Bert Lahr ... gave me a love of theatre--its kinetic and emotional potential and its raffish backstage fun--and also set an artistic example of the importance of corrupting an audience with pleasure.” FirstsFatherFunPleasureAudienceExampleEmotionalImportanceTheatreArtistic Author:John Lahr
“Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic flaw is dubious, a form of emotional correctness.” FeelsKindSelfFormLinesEmotionEmotionalCriticalPityArtisticOrthodoxFlawsSelf PityCorrectnessDubiousIgnoble Book:Songbook Source: Songbook
“We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as a nation.” PeopleNeedsCountryNationsCreativityEmotionalArtisticOutlets Book:My Days Source: My Days
“I feel like we want to compartmentalise things and say, 'Well, that's emotional, artistic and subjective, while this is intellectual, objective and measured.' I have difficulty thinking that's the way we experience things.” ThinkingWayWantFeelsWellsEmotionalIntellectualDifficultyObjectivesArtisticSubjective Author:Shane Carruth
“I don't need legitimization to take part in Israeli productions; I am a good actress. To work in Israel is a financial investment for me. I do it for emotional, not artistic, reasons.” NeedsReasonEmotionalInvestmentFinancialProductionsIsraelActressesArtisticIsraeliFinancial Investment Author:Mili Avital
“Artistic form is congruent with the dynamic forms of our direct sensuous, mental, and emotional life; works of art are projections of "felt life", as Henry James called it, into spatial, temporal, and poetic structures.” ArtFormFeltEmotionalDirectStructureArtisticPoeticWorks Of ArtProjectionSensuousSpatialEmotional Life Author:Susanne Katherina Langer
“I love the whole kind of notion of transformation for me is (what) excites me about not only acting, but storytelling. I love, I love that notion of a slightly larger-than-life artistic truth, you know, magnifying real emotional truth (or) finding something about human condition (which), you wouldn't necessarily think you can learn from characters such as Kong or Gollum, but actually they are, you know, these huge amplifications of a human psyche and I suppose those kind of roles have always attracted me definitely.” ThinkingKnowsHumansKindRealWholeCharacterActingRolesConditionsEmotionalHugeFindingsTransformationNotionStorytellingArtisticHuman ConditionLarger Than LifeMagnifyingHuman PsycheAmplification Author:Andy Serkis
“Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit.” HardUseHappensDifficultTermEmotionalEgoWeaknessThings HappenArtisticConfrontingScientologyLetting Things Happen Author:Annie E. Clark
“We don't have a lot of power in the world, right? We can only control so many things. It allows you to curate your own emotional and artistic intake of life.” WorldEmotionalArtistic Author:Regina Spektor
“Madonna can still produce a catchy pop song, but she hasn't expanded her artistic vocabulary since the 1990s. Her concerts are glitzy extravaganzas of special effects overkill. She leaves little space in them for emotional depth or unscripted rapport with the audience.” LittlesStillsSongSpaceAudienceSpecialEffectsProduceEmotionalDepthPopsArtisticConcertsVocabularySpecial EffectsPop SongCatchyRapportOverkill Author:Camille Paglia
“You know, with the film industry crews, there's an odd mix between a very technical and a very artistic approach to the work, and sometimes as a woman you have to be a little bit careful about how things come out because people don't really want to listen if it's in a certain emotional tone or too strong.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantLittlesSometimesFilmCertainStrongBitsEmotionalIndustryApproachLittle BitCarefulArtisticOddToneCrewFilm Industry Author:Kristen Stewart