Human life Quote by Sianne Ngai

“My assumption is that affects are less formed and structured than emotions, but not lacking form or structure altogether; less “sociolinguistically fixed,” but by…

— Sianne Ngai

“I see affect or feeling as the primary innate biological motivating mechanism, more urgent than drive deprivation and pleasure and more urgent than physical…

— John Bradshaw

Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that…

— Bill Viola

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.

— Charles Lamb

“By emotion I mean the modifications of the body, whereby the active power of the said body is increased or diminished, aided or constrained,…

— Baruch Spinoza

Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.

— John Locke

There are opposing forces in all living things. My work reflects this and stirs up a contrast of emotions in the viewer... perception versus…

— Eugene J. Martin

“Emotional life can be influenced, but it cannot be commanded.”

— Thomas Lewis

Well chosen words mixed with measured emotions is the basis of affecting people.

— Jim Rohn

“In both cases, the difficulty lies not in the ontological difference between real emotion and virtual emotion, but rather in their proximity.”

— Sianne Ngai

“Similarly, Massumi argues that while emotion is “a subjective content, the sociolinguistic fixing of the quality of an experience which is from that point…

— Sianne Ngai

“For Massumi, affect is primary, non-conscious, asubjective or presubjective, asignifying, unqualified, and intensive; while emotion is derivative, conscious, qualified, and meaningful, a “content” that…

— Steven Shaviro