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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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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I have only one superstition... Touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
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Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for no one but myself.
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A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on just what type of assumptions, of familiar notions, of established and unexamined ways of thinking the accepted practices are based... To do criticism is to make harder those acts which are now too easy.
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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.
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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.
