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“Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it does so in silence, in your dreams, in your wordless moments. Good words enter you and become moods, become the quiet fabric of your being. Like music, like painting, literature too wants to transcend its primary condition and become something higher. Art wants to move into silence, into the emotional and spiritual conditions of the world. Statues become melodies, melodies become yearnings, yearnings become actions.”

“A landscape painting is essentially emotional in origin. It exists as a record of an effect in nature whose splendour has moved a human heart, and according as it is well or ill done it moves the hearts of others.”

Humans Wells Heart Done Moving Emotion Records Effects Emotional Painting Moved Ill Landscape Human Heart Splendour Landscape Painting

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“If you ask people to remember a painting and a photograph, their description of the photograph is far more accurate than that of the painting. Strangely enough, there is a physical element intertwined with the painting. It shakes loose an emotional element within the viewer.”

People Ifs Enough Remember Asks Emotional Painting Elements Photograph Shakes Description Accurate Viewers Intertwined

Author:Luc Tuymans

“The best painting comes out of compulsions and obsessions, out of deep love or hate, out of intellectual or emotional involvement with something that lies outside the painting itself.”

Lying Hate Emotional Painting Intellectual Obsession Compulsion Involvement Deep Love Love Or Hate

Author:Edward Betts

“It is now an accepted fact that the expression of emotion through painting... is a source of deep psychological satisfaction... It is a system which can also in some measure, even compensate for the lack of emotional fulfilment in human relationships.”

Humans Facts Emotion Emotional Painting Expression Source Satisfaction Accepted Psychological Human Relations Human Relationships Fulfilment

Author:Mervyn Levy

“If paintings are so important - worth so much, reproduced, cherished, and visited so often - then isn't it troubling that we can hardly make emotional contact with the artists? Few centuries, it seems, are as determinedly tearless as ours.”

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Author:James Elkins

“It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.”

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Author:Thomas S. Buechner

“Making this movie as a period piece about a period that was very recent in people's minds. I was in Taiwan [during the 1970s], so I hope I did all right. Otherwise, it could be the biggest embarrassment of my life. Also, the story is not linear, it's patchy, like a cubist painting, and there is always the possibility it will not hold together, it will fall apart. The tone is part satire, part serious drama, part tragedy, all mixed together, and it has to hit an emotional core. That's also very scary.”

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Author:Ang Lee

“Unlike music or poetry or painting, food rouses no response in passionate and emotional youth. Only when the surge of the blood is quieted does gastronomy come into its own with philosophy and theology and the sterner delights of the mind.”

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Book:The Documents in the Case

Source: The Documents in the Case

“Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.”

Artist Emotion Emotional Painting Painting A Picture

Author:Wale

“My first sense of myself was as an artist, a painter. I would see a Van Gogh painting and just love it, the more emotional and passionate the more it attracted me.”

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Author:Philip Schultz

“I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. I see no reason for painting but that. If I have anything to offer, it is my emotional contact with the place where I live and the people I do.”

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Author:Andrew Wyeth