Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes

My skating is a very emotional thing that comes from the heart, never doing it for the medal.

Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.

For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy.

When I sing, I think mostly about the music. But I know that, through singing, my body shows everything that I am. I am a very passionate man and I suffer a lot and have a lot of joy also. In my opinion, it is very important for me to find this stimulus and motivation for singing.

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

Watch a movie that makes you laugh or listen to a song that makes you cry. Embrace your emotions and be proud of what you feel.

Music gets us in touch with our emotions in a way that's more intimate than any other art form.

Art is a way of showing the outside world what your inside world is like.

All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.

I can be most colorful and inventive when I am angry.

I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands.

The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference.

For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song.

We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat.

Where words fail, music speaks.

The thing running through me is the same thing that writes songs. It's the fighter about to get into the ring. It's like, I'm not here to entertain you; I'm here to get this out, whatever it is.

I think good music comes from the heart. That's my belief.

Music inspires me.

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.