Abstract Quote by Eugene J. Martin

As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me.

— Jim Hodges

My work involves the physical manifestation of emotional reality. Thus, the invisible becomes visible; the normal, abnormal; and the familiar, unfamiliar. Ordinary life is…

— Sandy Skoglund

I am very conscious of the viewer because that's where the art takes place. My work really strives to put the viewer in a…

— Jeff Koons

Sometimes I think I shouldn't explain much about my work because people will just feel what they feel when they see it. They'll love…

— Jose Parla

Because I write intuitively and image-by-image and moment-by-moment, my writing has to be powered by feelings and emotions.

— Fred D'Aguiar

“The distinction between “real in nature” versus “illusory” is a false dichotomy. Fear and anger are real to a group of people who agree…

— Lisa Feldman Barrett

“Affect is perhaps the most difficult plane of human life to define and describe, not merely because it is a-signifying (and contemporary theory is…

— Sianne Ngai

I'm not in any way trying to make statements that are not also invaded by emotions and abstract ideas that I don't really understand…

— Jenny Hval

I really put a lot of and emotion into my project in order to evoke emotion.

— Drake

I see my work as having a relationship to the visual world, not just some emotive residue of my feelings. It relates to something…

— Elizabeth Neel

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to…

— David Hume

I'm interested in how we define things by how we choose to observe them, and how everywhere in our lives, and in every moment…

— Oliver Jeffers