Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I…

I don't want any colour to be noticeable... I don't want it to operate in the modernist sense as colour, something independent... Full, saturated…

— Lucian Freud

If tone is granted to be subjected to control, why not line also, which has equal emotional significance? And if line, why not shapes…

— William Mortensen

“The role of the amygdala is to attach emotional significance to situations or objects and to form emotional memories.”

— Catherine M. Pittman

People's most prized possessions carry deeply symbolic and emotional significance.

— Gad Saad

There's something that intervenes and is very important which has to do with value. Value in the true biological sense, which is that contrary…

— Antonio Damasio

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

— Paul Auster

Grief is the price we pay for being close to one another. If we want to avoid our grief, we simply avoid each other.

— Thomas Lynch

I want to avoid people, because there’s only one thing worse than being homeless, and that’s people who are not, knowing that you are.

— Craig Stone

If you want to avoid weddings then attend funerals.

— Vikrant Parsai

A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.

— Charlie Munger

“It makes you want to avoid, and then it makes you terribly needy. It reduces you to about five years old. It also makes”

— Julia Wendell

“What you'll find, I think, is that the things you most want to avoid are the things that make you feel the greatest when…

— Kevin Wilson

Pretending that you're very busy talking over phone when you see someone you want to avoid or don't want to talk to.

— Raghav Singh

“...most people were motivated not by what they want but what they want to avoid.”

— Katie Kacvinsky

“Work. Like pain, I sensed that this was an experience I would want to avoid as often as possible.”

— Joanne Harris