Desire Quote by Will Cotton

Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in.

— Nigel Cooke

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are…

— Oliver Goldsmith

The pleasure of making things beautiful or useful involves your feelings as well as your thinking. When your original sketch evolves into a tangible,…

— Eva Zeisel

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

— Robert Motherwell

One paints from nature not in order to copy, but to express feelings of grandeur.

— Georges Vantongerloo

I don't want what you see on the screen to just be a brief notion of pleasure but something that lingers. The idea is…

— Elia Suleiman

“I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have…

— Richard P. Feynman

“We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it. The objects that provoke aesthetic emotion vary with…

— Clive Bell

The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion we call…

— Clive Bell

“Delight yourself with imagination and artistry and be inspired by life’s beauty.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

“I call it Joy. 'Animal-Land' was not imaginative. But certain other experiences were... The first is itself the memory of a memory. As I…

— C.S. Lewis

Pleasure has ever more been represented by poets and by painters as clothed in perpetual smiles and adorned with the richest jewels; and in…

— John Tyler