Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things this function can be more fully performed by this art which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable curator-approved 'isms' and twists.

To the man who loves art for its own sake it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad and by laughing at the architecture.

There are a lot of people with a lot of money and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give.

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.