Art Quote by Nadia Boulanger

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Emotion may be expressed, or the utter lack of it may be expressed, but the only important fact is that of expression.

— William Mortensen

“people’s social world; the emotion expressed is within their comfort”

— Timothy Keller

“Me: "All right, but you said we had to put emotion into our art. I don't know what that means. I don't know what…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion. My art…

— Louise Bourgeois

Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art.

— Georges Braque

Art is emotion without desire.

— Muriel Barbery

“The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be done. And…

— T S Eliot

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

— Paul Cezanne

“All art is immoral… For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is…

— Yosay Briels

Fashion is another way of expressing emotion and art.

— Ruel

“Writing creates something new: an “art emotion,” i.e., an image of emotion, an illusion of emotion, which exists only in the context of the…

— Rami Shapiro