Feelings Quotes - Page 159

Art and religion have the same origin. Art first, or religion first? Maybe consciousness first! Consciousness always comes with religious feeling and artistic identification. It's the same origin.

My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and where people want to go.

Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into action.

Music may appeal to crude and coarse feelings or to refined and noble ones; and in so far as it does the latter it awakens the higher nature and works an effect, though but a transitory effect, of a beneficial kind. But the primary purpose of music is neither instruction nor culture but pleasure; and this is an all-sufficient purpose.

Intellect begins with the observation of nature, proceeds to memorize and classify the facts thus observed, and by logical deduction builds up that edifice of knowledge properly called science… But admittedly we also know by feeling, and we can combine the two faculties, and present knowledge in the guise of art.

Once we become conscious of a feeling and attempt to make a corresponding form, we are engaged in an activity which, far from being sincere, is prepared (as any artist if he is sincere will tell you) to moderate feelings to fit the form. The artist's feeling for form is stronger than a formless feeling.

I find that it's nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else's feelings. You get a little jaded by yourself.

Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its rigor.

See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.

The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.

No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.

A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives to find faults has a miserable mission.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then

It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.

It is through the human figure that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life.

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.

The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.

I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.

The bottle is where everything sad or mean or confusing can go. And the blues--it's like that bottle. But in the bottle there's a seed that you let grow. Even in the bottle it can grow big and green. It's full of all those feelings that are in there, but beautiful and growing too.

I love looking in the mirror and feeling good about what I see.

It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.

That’s what love’s all about. You’re the only one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark your mind and body have to bear it all. All by yourself.

While feeling far less injured by toil than my friends took for granted I must be, I yet was always aware of the strong probability that my life would end as the lives of hard literary workers usually end, - in paralysis, with months or years of imbecility.

Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood.