Desire Quote by Joris-Karl Huysmans

“I seek new perfumes, ampler blossoms, untried pleasures.”

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If a God…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

Ah; but my courage fails me, and my heart is sick within me! —Lord, take pity on the Christian who doubts, on the skeptic…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“There is not one single invention of (Nature's), however subtle or impressive it may be thought to be, that the human spirit cannot create;…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“Ah, when one has not the gift of rendering one's grief superbly and transforming it into literary or musical passages which weep magnificently, the…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“He wanted, in short, a work of art both for what it was in itself and for what it allowed him to bestow on…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

(Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries, and had finally reached those…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“What he wanted was colours which would appear stronger and clearer in artificial light. He did not particularly care if they looked crude or…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism. I wish…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“The Louis XIII style in perfumery, composed of the elements dear to that period - orris-powder, musk, civet and myrtle-water, already known by the…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

The only really indecent people are the chaste.

— Joris-Karl Huysmans