Seductive Quotes

167 quotes by 154 authors

The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a stone cold fact that In… — Lev Grossman
Every work is completely different. Sometimes the music is first, sometimes it's parallel, and sometimes the music is after. There's no rule. Music goes differently… — Pipilotti Rist
Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself. It is beauty that animates aesthetic experience, making it so seductive; but aesthetic… — Roger Kimball
Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal the afflictions of… — Carol Anshaw
There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals. There's still a negative attitude in our society towards… — Demi Moore
Let me tell you how the French seduce you. They are the most bloody seductive people on Earth. They are charming, they are well-mannered and… — Anita Roddick
Beautiful art sells. If it sells itself, it is an idolatrous commodity; if it sells anything else, it is a seductive advertisement. — Dave Hickey
We know the human mind is programmed to glaze over when bored. Conversely, the mind is more alert in the presence of novelty. Our muse… — Robert Genn
I think women want to feel beautiful. They want to feel seductive. — Joseph Altuzarra
When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the… — Malcolm Muggeridge
There is not a little generalship and stratagem required in the managing and marshalling of our pleasures, so that each shall not mutually encroach to… — Charles Caleb Colton
Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy. — Mason Cooley
Vampires have always held a very seductive kind of lore and have always been some variety of attractive, whether it's attractiveness that's born of just… — Colin Farrell
Collective solutions to individual problems is very seductive. It's how Obama gets elected, by the way. — Rush Limbaugh
Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But… — Lois Lowry
Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just a seductive one? — Susan Orlean
My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive. — Gwyneth Paltrow
It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul. — Robert Redford
Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession. — Georg Simmel
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous. — Queen Victoria

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