Artist Quote by Lodovico Dolce

More and more, as I get older, people come up to me and say, 'Thank you for all the laughter.' And my standard answer…

— Bob Newhart

A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

— Samuel Johnson

“What was it that led the Cynics to repudiate pleasure in any form, if it was not the fact that pain is, in a…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Why is a two-year-old so terrible? Because she is systematically testing the fascinating and, to her, utterly novel notion that something that gives her…

— Malcolm Gladwell

The most appealing part is the feeling of learning something true - the pleasure of a truth. For me, that's mostly found in philosophical…

— Eyvind Kang

I don’t like to talk about what my paintings mean since they are so personal, so I like to leave it up to the…

— Lori Earley

On the contrary, my desire is that the viewer sees the background coming forward in the lower portion of the canvas, fighting for space,…

— Kehinde Wiley

The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy is demanded…

— Philip Guston

How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: 'The lady is smiling because she…

— Stanley Kubrick

I want viewers to see that everything is connected, even the little guys like pollinators and flowers.

— Louie Schwartzberg

I've taken my cue from people here and from viewers, especially survivors-who said, 'When it's time to literally flip your wig, you'll know.'

— Robin Roberts