Emotion
Be guided by feelings alone. Abandon yourself to your first impression. If you really have been touched, you will convey to others the sincerity of your emotion.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it.
Vincent Van Gogh
The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.
Mark Rothko
I am not an abstractionist. I am not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I am interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.
Mark Rothko
True art lies in a reality that is felt.
Odilon Redon
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
Agnes Martin
It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.
Berthe Morisot
By suprematism I mean the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art.
Kasimir Malevich
A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.
Hans Hoffman
To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.
Hans Hofmann
Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.
Lawren Harris
Art captures emotions, feelings and the energy of the object or event that is being depicted. It goes far deeper then the cold, flat surface of duplication.
Joseph Minton
Painting is with me but another word for feeling.
John Constable
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
Marc Chagall
The artist can know all the technique in the world, but if he feels nothing, it will mean nothing.
Chen Chi
Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension.
Joan Miro
Who told you that one paints with colors? One makes use of colors, but one paints with emotions.
Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
Paul Cezanne
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
Pablo Picasso
The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
Jackson Pollock
I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.
Euan Uglow
Paint evokes emotion, any emotion, something always happens.
Brenda Johima
Honor your humanness and all of your feelings - the messy ones, the growing pains, the ache - because we can't have the dark without the light.
Sabrina Ward Harrison
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