Art Quote by Pliny the Elder

A man who knows how to mix pleasures with business is never entirely possessed by them; he either quits or resumes them at his…

— Charles de Saint-Evremond

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

— Agnes Repplier

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

— John Donne

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

— Charles Baudelaire

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.

— Brendan Behan

Some men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill of pleasure, and what…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Though a man excels in everything, unless he has been a lover his life is lonely, and he may be likened to a jewelled…

— Yoshida Kenko

If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time at his…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“Beauty and art, no doubt, pervade all business of life like a kindly genius, and form the bright adornment of all our surroundings, both…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The vices of some men are magnificent.

— Charles Lamb

“and women, intoxicated by the adoration that men (under the influence of their senses) pay them, don’t try to achieve a permanently important place…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

— Thornton Wilder