Personal Emotion Quotes

Personal pique is not a foreign policy.

Anger is the quintessential individual-signature emotion: I am what makes me mad.

I think I'm a very sentimental person. Conscious or not, that's what draws me to the kind of films I want to make.

I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can keep putting more things in it - drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space. Through your eyes it again becomes an emotion or idea.

Guilt. It comes naturally to me as a Jew and a Liberal.

Some of my stuff, I realize is just rage.

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.

Is love a fancy or a feeling.... or a Ferrars?

They are very personal, emotional songs - people react to them very strongly.

I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don’t want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.

The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the context in which it has been evoked.

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.

As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.

I start with a mood or an idea that comes from a personal place emotionally, and the narrative concepts come much later.

My music comes from my emotion, always.

I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage.