Profound Emotion Quotes

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.

What you really have to know is one: yourself. And the only way you can know that one is in the mirror of the others. And the only way you can see into the mirror of the others is by love or its opposite—by profound emotion. Certainly not by curiosity—by dancing around asking, looking, making notes. You have to live relationships to know.

The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. It is the source of all true art and science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle.

Profound music leads us beyond language...to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.

We scarcely wish to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.

The Trump win is the biggest upset victory maybe ever, certainly in my lifetime, it's the biggest upset. So the emotion that's attached to that is gonna be profound. The Reagan win was huge for many of the same reasons, but it wasn't the big upset that this was.

Love is the most powerful four letter word.

I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.

The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.

Despite what Wordsworth says about thoughts that 'lie too deep for tears', I think tears are a pretty reliable indication of being in the grips of a profound experience.

Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite.

I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.