Art Quote by Roland Barthes

The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral.

— Aristippus

There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.

— William Hazlitt

We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

— Anonymous

The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in…

— Anonymous

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

— Samuel Johnson

Everything that is full of life loves change, for the characteristic of life is movement toward a new goal and urges toward new pleasures

— Fulton J. Sheen

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

— George Bernard Shaw

In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life.

— William Shakespeare

All of the pleasures of this present physical life can be continued into the next life as well!

— David Berg

If the pleasures we seek are not permanent, then how important are they?

— Colin Beavan

“Pleasure is a reward, given to the human system by evolution in return for services rendered to the preservation and increase of the species.”

— Clive Barker

Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti