Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration. Read Summary
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. Read Summary
My music is touching people in whatever spaces they need to be touched in. Read Summary
I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud. Read Summary
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. Read Summary
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. Read Summary
Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object. Read Summary
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. Read Summary
Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It's also the dangerous part and it's an ugly emotion that hurts. Read Summary
Hatred is inveterate anger. Read Summary
Sex is emotion in motion. Read Summary
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman. Read Summary
Music is the emotional life of most people. Read Summary
Music is the shorthand of emotion. Read Summary
Energy can't be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere. Read Summary
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. Read Summary
What I love to do is paint people's faces, y'know, their eyes. Because you want to find that emotion, see what's going on behind their eyes. Read Summary
Hatred is a very underestimated emotion. Read Summary
I try to make music with emotion and integrity. And authenticity. You can feel when something's authentic, and you can feel when it's not: you know when someone's trying to make the club record, or trying to make the girl record, or trying to make the thug record. It's none of that. It's just my emotions. Read Summary
Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion. Read Summary