Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic…

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

— Max Ernst

I wasn't born into a religious home, but I was just not a materialist. I didn't believe the material world was all there was…

— Scott Derrickson

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is one of…

— William Butler Yeats

I realized, "Gee, you're making the same film over and over here." I just kept making them for my own amusement, but also with…

— Jim Jarmusch

The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of…

— Blaise Pascal

My first job was at an amusement park in Virginia. It was the worst. I loved the park but once I'd worked there all…

— Danny McBride

Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

— Anne Frank

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

— Aristotle

I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,' and through…

— Amanda McBroom

By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who…

— Pablo Picasso

Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.

— Bela Lugosi

Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.…

— Karen Marie Moning

Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions… Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself…

— Lord Chesterfield