Deborah Solomon Quotes
The pleasure that attaches to the artistic life comes in imagining what we might do as opposed to acknowledging what we have done.
Quotes to Explore
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
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Work is both my living and my pleasure.
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
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The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
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Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.
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For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.
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Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
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Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.
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Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.
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Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not defined by it.
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I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.
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Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.
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It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.
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Coogee is a delightful, slightly old-fashioned suburb; it has parks and gardens and reserves, a good well-kept beach, and an excellent promenade above the beach. It is a suburb for people who appreciate those aspects of life.
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Recalling and confessing our sin is like taking out the garbage: once is not enough.
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I do not regard myself as a Christian politician. I regard myself as a politician who just happens to think religion matters. I would be appalled, absolutely appalled, to think religion drove anyone's politics in a secular democracy like ours.
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Turkish society is divided not only culturally but also politically. You're either conservative or progressive. Islamist or secular. Right wing or left wing. This kind of division can be seen in any society, but in Turkey, the problem is that we are losing any kind of connection between groups and any kind of desire to understand one another. The groups hate each other and they are demolishing all bridges between themselves. So society is divided strictly.
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The pleasure that attaches to the artistic life comes in imagining what we might do as opposed to acknowledging what we have done.
