Quotes About Desire

She's staring down her desires, while they're staring down her dress.

Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!

In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile to express by its means.

I'm only lookin' for a fantasy, an interlude from reality.

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

In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the truly ideal life that can never come true.

An artist who desires very little and achieves it has failed in life.

What treasures he would give for one night with her. To watch her strip off one of her vintage dresses, revealing her satin skin inch by inch just for him.

Lee explained to her that art for art's sake is an upper-class aesthetic. To create art divorced from any purpose, you can't be living a life driven by need and desire.

In the end the soul is itself the longing of the soulless for salvation.

Your desire to make art -- beautiful or meaningful or emotive art -- is integral to your sense of who you are.

What he was after hangs between the visible and the invisible, between the here and now and the seemingly elsewhere.

Photography is an itch that wont go away. No matter how much you scratch it.

Art is the expression of an enormous preference.

My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.

All art is erotic.

All this and heaven too.

I occasionally feel contempt for that attitude [degree of sexual desire towards me] when I perceive it, but maybe that's not fair. By our culture we've been taught who is most valued and who is not.

You can have anything you want, if you go out and get it. If you claim it as your own. You have a right to it.

God places the solitary in families,' comforting words from the Bible … families, by blood, by obligation, by necessity, by desire … and sometimes, if one is very lucky, by love.

It just goes to show, never say never, or the next thing you know, you'll be doing what you said you never would, owning a dog you swore you didn't want and walking (or carrying) a tiny, totally enchanting little dog on a rhinestone-studded pink leash.

Men don't sleep with you when they love you, but they do sleep with you without a second thought when they don't.

She had wished for someone to love, and who would love her, to share her life with.

I still have this crazy idea