Quotes About Delectation

The great problem was the selection of the readymade. I needed to choose an object without it impressing me: that is to say, without it providing any sort of aesthetic delectation. Moreover, I needed to reduce my own personal taste to absolute zero.

I had decided to delight the audience by playing my soprano saxophone for their delectation (years later, a music critic would describe my playing at a concert as "excruciating").

Iubirea e banal?. Î?i provoac? o intoxica?ie chimic? foarte asem?n?toare cu aceea dat? de o reu?it? mult a?teptat? sau de mersul cu mare vitez?. În acele momente, nu mai ?inem cont de nimic ?i ne concentr?m doar asupra propriei noastre delect?ri; via?a de zi cu zi ne este distorsionat? ?i devenim ira?ionali: ne sim?im ferici?i ?i ni se pare c? totul este posibil.

And in touching your own nothingness, in not feeling your permanent base, in not reaching your own infinity, still less your own eternity, you will have a whole-hearted pity for yourself, and you will burn with a sorrowful love for yourself--a love that will consume your so-called self-love, which is merely a species of sensual self-delectation, the self-enjoyment, as it were, of the flesh of your soul.