Evoking Emotion Quotes

As long as I can make an audience feel something, I don't care whether it's a good thing or bad thing, just to feel something is important to me.

The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.

I really put a lot of and emotion into my project in order to evoke emotion.

I want to move people.

I want to break into the acting industry. It's something I have a great deal of respect for; it's a passion of mine. It's so amazing, the differences between acting and being an athlete, but the one commonality is they both evoke emotion in the viewer. And those emotions are real. So I think that's pretty cool.

That's my whole point as an artist - I'm trying to get you to turn a page.

The problem with shooting in Paris is, it's been shot to death. When you're in it, you already think you're in a movie, so how do you get away from that feeling, and give some frisson to the viewer?

To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big or small.

I want to make people feel something - that's really cool.

My whole thing as a performer is to affect people, whether I make you cry or I make you laugh. I would love to make you think.

Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.

The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.

If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your job. You've evoked something.

We often use strong language not to express a powerful emotion but to evoke it in us.

Wrestling and sports entertainment is not about the moves, it really isn't. It's about being able to evoke emotion in one facet or another.

I want listeners to feel as though they went through an experience.

Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and use them as required.

On stage, it is a tremendous thing to be able to make people laugh. But one of the things that I have always loved is when I am in shows where you can turn the audience upside down and make them cry or move them. That is when things are the most rewarding.