Sensibility Quotes

315 Sensibility quotes by 272 unique authors

The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence. — George Eliot
Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words. — George Eliot
The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. — Christian Nestell Bovee
All the old bogeys of 'dignified subject-matter,' of 'balanced compositions,' of 'correct drawing' were laid to rest. The artist was responsible to no one but… — Ernst Gombrich
Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information… — Pablo Picasso
Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so fine! Ah, hapless… — William Cowper
I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment… — Horace Walpole
Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility. — Remy de Gourmont
Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn. — Remy de Gourmont
Pure, existential space was regularly winking at me, each time in a more impressive manner, and this sensation of total freedom attracted me so powerfully… — Yves Klein
Sensibility... is a direct and particular reaction to the separate and individual nature of things. It begins and ends with the sensuous apprehension of colour,… — Herbert Read
The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the exercise… — Herbert Read
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
An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up his sensibilities. — Wayne Thiebaud
Our philosophy is about reaching back to move forward. We have something different to say with a sensibility that is both old and new. — John Varvatos
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems to have been overshadowed by the upheavals in the region. I have followed events there for almost 40 years. I am… — Heinz Fischer
Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; he had acute sensibility… — Henry Adams
What a rare joy it is to linger in the lucid, transcendent worlds of Jennifer Maier's poems. In taut, precise language and lapidary images, Now,… — Rick Hilles
An American soldier, Saddam in his sights, has a picture of a naked, buxom woman on his dashboard, an obvious affront to Muslim sensibilities. — Margo Kingston
Chinese architecture has a complete organic structure; it contains both sensibility and purpose. — Wu Guanzhong
What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at evoking a climate… — George Scialabba
Pleasure is to a woman what the sun is to the flower: if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it… — Charles Caleb Colton
How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in Christian Sensibility over… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
These days movies are cut very quickly and sort of fragmented and I tend to do slower moving stories where people develop relationships with people.… — Billy Bob Thornton
The chemistry and the comfort and trust between two people playing a love story l is key, and to have a friend that I could… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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