Emmanuel Jal Quotes

Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

I think a guitar solo is how my emotion is most freely released, because verbal articulation isn't my strongest communication strength. My wife thinks that I should do interviews by listening to the questions and playing the answer on guitar.

I find it hard to talk and say things, but I can always sing about them.

Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language.

I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

Writing is not for me. I completely lose my sense of humor when I write. I become extremely pathetic, very sensational. Images give me possibilities that I don't have with words.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.

You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is the best way I can relate and express what I am feeling and what I am going through.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

I think art is communication. To that extent, it can be the words between the words. It has a possibility of communicating something more than people can do with prose or just talking.

Art became my therapy. It's an amazing outlet.

I like to paint and spend a lot of time doing art. For me, it's about hearing yourself and putting it out there as art. It's like a therapy thing.

I keep quiet and let the music do the talking.

Visual storytelling utilizes both language and art to pass on the essence of who we are.

I definitely think that using that artistic side of your brain, just having an outlet for emotion is very important, whether it be painting, dancing, acting, or singing.

For me, the importance in learning about the dance is using it as a voice. It's not about a step, it's about a way to express oneself.

Art is a way of life.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings