Beautiful Quote by Niklaus Wirth

“This pattern is common in people who love what they do. Their satisfaction doesn’t come from the details of their work but instead from…

— Jocelyn K. Glei

Let me formulate the artistic disposition as follows: it is reacting with one's ideal to the flaw in oneself and in the world, and…

— Paul Goodman

The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her…

— Ouida

Satisfaction is the death of ambition.

— Nikki Yanofsky

Many causes may vitiate a writer's judgement of his own works. On that which has cost him much labour he sets a high value,…

— Samuel Johnson

A sort of egotistical self-evaluation is unavoidable in those joys in which erudition and art mingle and in which aesthetic pleasure may become more…

— Marcel Proust

Creating art or something beautiful makes you a more fulfilled person than they can ever be because they're caught up in what they hate…

— Anonymous

The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it…

— Henry Fielding

I destroy myself by augmenting unnecessary self-deprecating understandings of beauty. But that's also what keeps me satisfied.

— Anonymous

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .

— Socrates

Incapacity to appreciate certain types of beauty may be the condition sine qua non for the appreciation of another kind; the greatest capacity both…

— George Santayana

Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in…

— William Hazlitt