Quotes About Sensitiveness

The true art of seeing and enjoying rests chiefly in sensitiveness and power of sympathy, and the true value of observation is in the noble thoughts that it excites within us.

Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.

I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.

I think Seneca is right: life feels longer the more you engage with it.... I should be loving sculpture! But I have not gone deeply into sculpture. Instead, having been utterly insensitive to sculpture, I fill the time that might have been usefully devoted to sculpture with things like drinking and staring into space.

Peter's sensitiveness of perception was acute. He knew exactly what the independent old farmer-ferryman was thinking; he understood and in a measure sympathised with his feelings. Peter was like that — he could always see the other fellow's point of view. His mother had been immensely large-hearted and tolerant, and she had brought up her son to loathe intolerance as one of the deadly sins.

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.

I've noticed that women often respond to him in this way - with an unthreatened openness. He generally likes women and you can see this in his photographs. There is nothing aggressive, prurient, or objectifying about them. Their sensuality is theirs alone. It never seems imposed.

Our sense of honor is responsible for our exaggerated sensitiveness and touchiness; and if there is the conceit in us with which some foreigners charge us, that, too, is a pathological outcome of honor. Have