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“I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.”

People Way Want Writing Feelings Seems Natural My Own Share Tendencies Observation

Author:Jerry Spinelli

“It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.”

Giving Feelings Artist Wish Painting Perception Observation Atmosphere Register

Author:Lucian Freud

“Intellect begins with the observation of nature, proceeds to memorize and classify the facts thus observed, and by logical deduction builds up that edifice of knowledge properly called science But admittedly we also know by feeling, and we can combine the two faculties, and present knowledge in the guise of art.”

Knows Art Two Facts Feelings Intellect Observation Logical Faculty Guise Deductions Edifice

Book:Selected writings: poetry and criticism

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism

“I don't need to praise anything so justly famous as Frost's observation of and empathy with everything in Nature from a hornet to a hillside; and he has observed his own nature, one person's random or consequential chains of thoughts and feelings and perceptions, quite as well. (And this person, in the poems, is not the "alienated artist" cut off from everybody who isn't, yum-yum, another alienated artist; he is someone like normal people only more so - a normal person in the less common and more important sense of normal.)”

People Needs Wells Persons Important Feelings Artist Common Cutting Normal Perception Empathy Praise Observation Chains Frost Thoughts And Feelings Hornets

Author:Randall Jarrell

“Our whole life can go on in observation of the laws of nature, if we gain dominion over our desires from the beginning and if we do not kill, by various means of a perverse art, the human offspring, born according to the designs of divine providence; for these women who, in order to hide their immorality, use abortive drugs which expel the child completely dead, abort at the same time their own human feelings.”

“Look at Goethe, at Lamartine and at many others! To depict feelings on this high plane, you must give up the process of minute and insignificant observation which is the bane of the artists of to-day.”

Giving Looks Feelings Artist Process Minutes Giving Up Observation Planes Insignificant Bane

Author:Paul Bourget

“The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide.”

Feelings Social Wide Observation Gaps

Book:The Long Revolution

Source: The Long Revolution

“Man is aware; he perceives and interprets the world around him. When he uses logic as a tool for interpretation, it becomes science; when he uses feelings for interpretation, it becomes poetry; when he takes a longer view of his observations, it becomes wisdom.”

Men World Use Feelings Wisdom Views Tools Logic Observation Perceive Interpretation

Author:Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal

“An amazing observation: it is precisely for feelings that one needs time, not for thought. ... Feelings, obviously, are more demanding than thought.”

Needs Feelings Observation Time Of Need

Author:Marina Tsvetaeva