Sensuous Quotes
72 quotes by 62 authors
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All the sleepers in a night of delution beholding so many dreams. In this world of darkness, only those who sever themselves from the meterial…
— Tulsidas
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A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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Can one, seeing the sun with one's sensuous eyes, not rejoice? But how much more joyful it is when the mind sees with its inner…
— Seraphim of Sarov
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Try vegetarianism and you will be surprised: meditation becomes far easier. Love becomes more subtle, loses its grossness - becomes more sensitive but less sensuous,…
— Rajneesh
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Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles,…
— Martina Navratilova
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I feel the sensuous side of Richa Chadda is ready to be tapped.
— Pooja Bhatt
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All human happiness is sensuous happiness.
— Lin Yutang
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Prayer needs no speech. It is in itself independent of any sensuous effort. But it must be combined with the utmost humility.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus…
— Edward Weston
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There is a great probability that our loss of capacity for enjoying the positive joys of life is largely due to the decreased sensibility of…
— Lin Yutang
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When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its…
— Peter Zumthor
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Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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A painting or sculpture not modelled on any real object is every bit as concrete and sensuous as a leaf or a stone... but it…
— Hans Arp
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What my art probably lacks is a kind of passionate humanity... There is no sensuous relationship, not even the noblest, between myself and the many.
— Paul Klee
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This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in…
— Charles Gounod
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I'm like the most expensive, exotic item on a gourmet menu. People can wonder about the sensuous delights of the dish, but they can't afford…
— Anna Kournikova
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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
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The eye and soul are caressed in the contemplation of form and colour. The subtle changes of colour over a surface - transitions that are…
— John F. Carlson
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The Frenchman, by nature, is sensuous and sensitive. He has intelligence, which makes him tired of life sooner than other kinds of men. He is…
— Anais Nin
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I love Indian food - it's my favourite cuisine. I love the mixture of spices and the subtle flavours. It's really erotic; the spices are…
— Joe Perry
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