Quotes About Desire

The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains.

A true artist is driven by the never-ending desire to create.

PRACTICE THE Art of Peace sincerely, and evil thoughts and deeds will naturally disappear. The only desire that should remain is the thirst for more and more training in the Way.

A foolish picture I live in disgust, degradation being eaten by lust.

So that's what art is, for the artist," said Crake. "An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.

Envy-Thy art blindness

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

Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.

So I find every pleasant spot In which we two were wont to meet, The field, the chamber, and the street, For all is dark where thou art not

Can't wait to date a supermodel, can't wait to sue my Dad. Can't wait to wreck a Ferrari, on the way to rehab.

I got a house full of Rembrandts and priceless art, and all the little girls they wanna tear me apart.

Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art

Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it.

I'm not turned on, so put away that meat you're selling.

Art theft gave a guy an appetite.

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

Ardent yet chill and formal, how I ache to tempt a chisel as a sculptor.

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

When I say to the Moment flying; 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!

O delicious kiss, Why thou so sudden art gone? Lost in the moment thou art won?

I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.

Kill them now, cause I need some kicks. I need some kicks, I'm getting bored.

I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.

More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it.