Quotes About Satisfaction

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

I have noticed that no sooner do people embark on a course of action which they do not find wholly satisfactory than they muster every argument to persuade others to imitate it.

When you stop wanting something, you get it.

I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn't say otherwise.

There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.

Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?

If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.

But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.

When it comes to art you can't please everybody but if you please yourself then take pleasure in that.

But the eyes, though they are no sailors, will never be satisfied with any model, however fashionable, which does not answer all the requisitions of art.

I didn't know the inner me was hungry," I said to Art. "That's because it already starved to death.

Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying.

Completing a piece of art and using all of the elements of making a film, was satisfying, for sure.

It matters little if something is 'craft' or 'art.' The question is only this: does it give me pleasure?

For in a dearth of comforts, we art taught To be contented with the least.

Happy thou art not; for what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get; and what thou hast, forgettest.

In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.

The artist is the only one qualified to criticize his art, because only the artist knows what he was trying to express and how satisfied he is with the attempt.

Realized dreams often turn into nightmares.

Art for Art's Sake is for the well fed. The well fed are all the babies in cradles and my kitty along with them, and I am happy if my writings are for my kitty.