Emotional Interpretation Quotes

Dance has always been a really important thing for me, so being able to physically express the characters through music and dance is like another layer to things.

Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.

I think the more the listener can contribute to the song, the better; the more they become part of the song, and they fill in the blanks. Rather than tell them everything, you save your details for things that exist. Like what color the ashtray is. How far away the doorway was. So when you're talking about intangible things like emotions, the listener can fill in the blanks and you just draw the foundation.

I think that's what all art is for - for people to express what it is to be human. That's the purpose of it.

The face she made at me was probably meant for a smile. Whatever it was, it beat me. I was afraid she'd do it again, so I surrendered

Maybe that's what love is, I thought: it's being pissed off.

The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.

How you feel is not the result of what is happening in your life-it is your interpretation of what is happening.

We get to experience the same thing in very different ways with different parts of ourselves.

It's always nice for me to get to explore somebody who's feeling that and then does something with it and takes it in a different direction or does something with it. It feels very powerful. It helps me with my own.

The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.

A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis.

Whether the flower or the color is the focus I do not know. I do know the flower is painted large to convey my experience with the flower - and what is my experience if it is not the color?

Soon it began to drizzle for the second time that night. The drops grew heavier and became visible in the headlights of the cars. It was said by some of the police on the scene that God was crying for the girl in the garden. To others, it was only rain.

What we feel is not based on our experience, but on our INTERPRETATION of experiences.

I long ago came to the conclusion that even if I could put down accurately the thing I saw and enjoyed, it would not give the observer the kind of feeling it gave me. I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at-not copy it.

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

For me, mood is something you have to ignore. I try to put myself in that position when I'm shooting and try to react the way I would. I try not to play funny if it doesn't call for that.

Separate the story - your story - from facts.

On the last album, I didn't want to disturb the melody with too many stories. This time, I wanted to know if I was able to create images with words, with the sound of words.(...) I think that’s a good thing when the one who is listening, is feeling it in a different way that the one who creates. We are all listening with different perspectives.(...) I don’t want to impose my subjectivity to the listener.

It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue.

Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.

Acting isn't like being an athlete. There's no real quantifiable measure. It's just a bunch of people feeling things.

It all depends on the directors. Working closely with a director is the main job of a film composer. Interpreting what he perceives as a color, an emotion or mood is very abstract. A director tells you something he wants and then you have to run back...

A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.