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

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

What people don't understand is that how you are as an artist depends on how you are emotionally.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.

My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.

All art to me is an empathetic act. Whoever's telling a story is trying to transfer emotion into someone else.

You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes so many different things. Because we forgot there was emotions involved.

I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.

To express your emotions, you have to be very loose and receptive. The unconscious will come to you if you have that gift that artists have. I only know if I'm inspired by the results.

All art is about appealing to emotion.