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Quotes about Emotion

You're crying? I'm a woman of the desert, she said, averting her face. But above all, I'm a woman.
— Paulo Coelho
what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority
— Audre Lorde
Her anger said, as anger is apt to say, that God was with her— that all heaven, though it were crowded with spirits watching them, must be on her side.
— George Eliot
Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears.
— J. Sidlow Baxter
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
— Pablo Picasso
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
— Albert Camus
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
— George Bernard Shaw
Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul.
— Marc Chagall
As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.
— Pablo Picasso
Have you not seen that in our days Of any whose story, song or art Delights us, our sincerest praise Means, when all's said, 'You break my heart?
— CS Lewis
Art should be pretentious. The place to be sincere is in one's relationships.
— Marty Rubin
That's what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call "personality", or maybe even "pain".
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.