The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

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.

There's something pleasing about large well-lit spaces. I love that dealers are willing to take massive chances in order to give this much room to their artists. Most of all I love that more galleries showing more art gives more artists a shot.

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.

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

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.