Quotes About Desire

Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.

Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.

Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

When you stop wanting something, you get it.

Art is a kind of illness.

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

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

Every woman knows the art of saying no with the lips and yes with the rest

There is no art without Eros.

Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease - Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.

There's nothing as human as hunger. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art.

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.

All these poses of classical torture ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard. I did go from wanting to be someone, now I'm drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue.

I don't wish power, only art -art and passion.

Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.

I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.

Most arts require long study and application, but the most useful art of all, that of pleasing, requires only the desire.

O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart."-Helena

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

Where are you, my little object of art? I am here to collect you.