I think, ultimately, I am a sensualist and an aesthete.

“It is the right of art to consider an impression valid simply as an impression and to accept it as something entire and complete…

— Leo Baeck

“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent.”

— Roman Payne

“I was an aesthete rather than an athlete, and my only wish was to be an ecstatic wanderer.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

There's no way to cheat a sensualist like me, somebody who can die laughing for hours over the pattern of the carpet in a…

— Anne Rice

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not…

— Walker Evans

All sensuality is one, though it takes many forms; all purity is one. It is the same whether a man eat, or drink, or…

— Henry David Thoreau

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“I’m a hedonist, and you, Jane, my wife, should know that about me. You’ve shared my body and bed, you know things about me…

— Charlotte Featherstone

“The sensualist, I'll allow ye, begins by pursuing a real pleasure, though a small one. His sin is the less. but the time comes…

— C.S. Lewis

I'm a sensualist. My two main indulgences are dark chocolate and massages.

— Carla Gugino

The philosopher says think your way out. The sensualist says play your way out but none of it works.

— Billy Graham

The body of the sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

The ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his capacity.

— Jacques Barzun

I could not identify with harming my child or giving up my child. But I could identify with giving up my child if it…

— Drea De Matteo

I have always been a big meta guy because I think the way journalism is practiced in Washington, and the way everyone sort of…

— Mark Leibovich