Pleasing Quotes

446 quotes by 365 authors

I will always come with something that's aesthetically pleasing. — Justin Timberlake
It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Comedy and drama are less ageist media for women than stuff like light entertainment. But in TV or film, women have to be more pleasing… — Sharon Horgan
All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Yet is beauty the pleasing trickery that cheateth half the world. — Martin Farquhar Tupper
Our entire being is fashioned as an instrument of praise. Just as a master violin maker designs an instrument to produce maximum aesthetic results, so… — Lamar Boschman
It was Mary who first adored the Incarnate Word. He was in her womb, and no one on earth knew of it. Oh! how well… — Peter Julian Eymard
To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good,… — Mahatma Gandhi
Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass! — Joseph Addison
Should a writer single out and point his raillery at particular persons, or satirize the miserable, he might be sure of pleasing a great part… — Joseph Addison
How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams.… — John Armstrong
To say that which is instructive and also pleasing. — John Heywood
I usually only draw myself in down periods... I suppose that's why I often draw myself looking grim. I just think, 'Let's have a look… — David Hockney
The true test of all the arts is not solely whether the production is a true copy of nature, but whether it answers the end… — Joshua Reynolds
Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who… — Joshua Reynolds
Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses. — Eugene Delacroix
The serpentine line, or the line of grace, by its waving and winding at the same time different ways, leads the eye in a pleasing… — William Hogarth
Decoration is asked to be 'merely' pleasing, 'merely' embellishing, and the 'functional' logic of Modernism leaves no room, apparently, for such 'mereness.' This is part… — Clement Greenberg
Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for up-sized art and more of it... Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.… — Jerry Saltz
Snow is all right while it is snowing; it is like inebriation because it is very pleasing when it is coming, but very unpleasing when… — Ogden Nash

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