Delectation Quotes

#1. The purpose of art is delectation.

Nicolas Poussin

#2. A fine meal ... is a delight in itself; add a glass of wine-gleaming red or translucent greenish gold-and delectation will be doubled.

Alexis Lichine

#3. 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.

Marcel Duchamp

#4. But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.

Maya Angelou

#5. In modern consumer society, the attack on mother-child eroticism took its total form; breastfeeding was proscribed and the breasts reserved for the husband's fetishistic delectation. At the same time, babies were segregated, put into cold beds alone and not picked up if they cried.

Germaine Greer

#6. She was not a vegetarian and knew firsthand animals had to die for her delectation, but she never liked to think about it.

Thomm Quackenbush

#7. Aesthetic delectation is the danger to be avoided.

Marcel Duchamp

#8. Energy is my specialty and I do white papers and briefing documents and I help write speeches for the administration

David Baldacci

#9. I would describe my songs as just a collection of my thoughts, with melodies that probably occurred to me in the grocery store or cycling home, sung as best I can over a bunch of chords.

Withered Hand

#10. I don't feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it's so old-fashioned. I could write a whole novel on scrap paper, scribbles and things. I keep looking at it and something develops. For me, using a word processor would mean staring at a screen for too many hours.

Joyce Carol Oates

#11. Because the more I discover about him, the fewer excuses I have to push him away. He's unraveling before me, becoming something entirely different; terrifying me in a way I never could've expected.

Tahereh Mafi

#12. I do not know much about gods;but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable ...

T. S. Eliot

#13. What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.

Amedeo Modigliani

#14. Where your flesh is in front, your future is behind.

Paul Enenche

#15. Humility leads to an open mind and a forgiving heart.

Eric Greitens

#16. According to Ferguson, grey things are invisible. Apparantly its just total luck that planes manage to find aircraft carriers in the middle of the ocean.

Nick Hancock