Emotion Quotes

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

~ Stanley Kubrick

For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

~ Luciano Pavarotti

I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.

~ Sebastian Bach

Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.

~ Bryant H. Mcgill

Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion.

~ James Blunt

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

~ Luis Barragán

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

~ Goldwin Smith

Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.

~ Hugh Hardy

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

~ James Joyce

Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.

~ H. P. Lovecraft

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

~ Plato

My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.

~ Jane Campion

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it.

~ Sherman Alexie

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

~ H. P. Lovecraft

In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.

~ Paul Harris

Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere.

~ Ivor Novello

Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.

~ Meg Tilly

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

~ Adlai Stevenson

Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's?

~ Wallace Shawn

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

~ W. H. Auden

It's a completely useless emotion - jealousy. I don't go there.

~ Joy Behar

I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.

~ Javier Bardem

I don't think most books can be justifiably translated on screen. The film versions can't convey the right emotion, fuel your imagination or allow you to visualise every line the way books do.

~ Sonam Kapoor

I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.

~ Erin Morgenstern

Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion.

~ Miguel

The forms of art are inexhaustible but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

~ Clive Bell

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.

~ Maurice Ravel

The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them, 'Ok, be sad now.'

~ John Lasseter

I've had some pretty good arguments with people, but I've never regretted it. I've had people come up where it's all emotion and no fact. That's always sad.

~ Patton Oswalt

Find the human in the technology. The currency marketers trade in has not changed even if the methods have. Emotion is what we exchange.

~ Simon Mainwaring

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it.

~ Gary Busey

You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual!

~ George Herman

If you look at my characters as a group, they all have a different relationship with the way that places can signify emotion in them - and the way those bonds can be shattered.

~ Jhumpa Lahiri

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

~ Robert Frost

Anger is an unnecessary emotion. Loads of stuff in life can trigger it, but what matters is how you react. I choose not to react.

~ Nicola Adams

Anger can be a useful emotion; it's built into our genetic code to help with self preservation. But it can also be destructive, even when it is justified.

~ Michael Hayden

I've never felt that anger is a very powerful emotion.

~ John Hurt

Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.

~ Dane Cook