Pleasure Quotes - Page 5

Faith is the realization that God's pleasure in you will never be based upon your performance for him.

I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting.

No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean and the pain of what it's not.

Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.

To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.

One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something

Happiness is unrepented pleasure.

When we are unable to receive, we deny someone else the pleasure of giving.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.

Masturbation is a democratic pleasure, practiced by rich and poor, young and old, married and single.

All the other pleasures of life seem to wear out, but the pleasure of helping others in distress never does.

The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.

Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.

Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.

It is odd how we sometimes deny ourselves the very pleasure we have longed for and which is finally within our reach.

Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this place.

The rigour of science requires that we distinguish well the undraped figure of Nature itself from the gay-coloured vesture with which we clothe her at our pleasure.

Show yourself more human than critical, and then your Pleasure will increase.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

What's my guilty pleasure? The thing is, I never feel guilty about pleasures.

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

Do not let a day go by without taking some time for yourself - some time you spend in pure pleasure, as you see it.