Creative Emotion Quotes

I think people who are artists, actors, singers, great songwriters, they tend to have a hyper state of emotion where they feel things very, very deeply, probably more deeply than the average person walking down the street where it may affect them, but not to the same extent.

Above all, it is a matter of loving art, not understanding it.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

Art is Knowledge at the service of emotion.

You have to connect with a song, and when you write it, that connection is already there. It's your baby; your passion is in that song.

All music is important if it comes from the heart.

I'm an emotional creature. I make music to express that.

It's hard to explain your emotions when you see a work of art.

Emotions are the basics of any art form!

The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself...Making music is actually little else than a matter of invention aided and abetted by emotion. In composing we combine what we know of music with what we feel.

... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast to happiness or pleasure. The artist, at the moment of creating, does not experience gratification or satisfaction... Rather, it is joy, joy defined as the emotion that goes with heightened consciousness, the mood that accompanies the experience of actualizing one's own potentialities.

If you're feeling emotional when you're creating something, it'll sound that way.

When I'm writing a record, I kind of don't listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.

I like to think of music as an emotional science.

I definitely think the best songs are written when you feel something strongly.

Any song I do, I put my heart and soul into and, as an artist, you can only hope it makes other people feel the way you feel when making it.

Painting is but another word for feeling.