Artist Quote by Siri Hustvedt

Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.

— Yanni

The Mona Lisa, to me, is the greatest emotional painting ever done. The way the smile flickers makes it a work of both art…

— Walter Isaacson

Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.

— Wale

“The ache of love feels remarkably like the ache of grief or guilt. Emotional pain isn't distinguishable by feeling, only by language. We give…

— Siri Hustvedt

When I taught writing classes to psychiatric patients, I met people whose stories of manic highs and immobilizing lows appeared to be textbook descriptions…

— Siri Hustvedt

Henry Miller is a famous writer whose work has fallen out of fashion, but I strongly recommend that readers who don't know his work…

— Siri Hustvedt

In order to handle my emotional pain I talk to friends about it, I write, I breathe, and most of all, I put it…

— Lisa Loeb

“Even sorrow has its silver lining, as the emotion that pours forth reminds us of our capacity to love, and to be loved.”

— Rob Kozak

“So what you've actually got is traumatized children. When children are traumatized that affects how they feel about themselves, which is deeply ashamed because…

— Gabor Maté

“I have found that most people are more willing to accept physical pain and limitation rather than acknowledge and deal with the mental and/or…

— Tobe Hanson

Emotional pain is sometimes what we make of it. We can always choose how we react. No matter what the pain, breathing always centers…

— Aleks Paunovic

“Mental illness People assume you aren’t sick unless they see the sickness on your skin like scars forming a map of all the ways…

— Emm Roy