I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
We call 'happiness' a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.
I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
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.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
