When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world and droop. Sick of its business of its pleasures tired how gracious how benign is solitude.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

For the greater beauty of the instrument the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness but so contrived that they may be taken off at pleasure and others much smaller and fitter for some purposes put in their places.

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love but for pleasure it degrades the seeker.

Beauty and brains pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due not only to the beauty it can be clothed in but also to its essential quality of being the present.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

If a site is done with pleasure and a fun attitude it's a great way to communicate with your fans.

I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings and every time I look at them I see something different.

The 1990s after the reign of terror of academic vandalism will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning value beauty pleasure and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.