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.
Auguste Rodin

This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I'm discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it's a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.
Eric Clapton

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
Samuel Butler

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Money gives me pleasure all the time.
Hilaire Belloc

Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.
Cat Stevens

We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure.
Robertson Davies

Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
Horace Walpole

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
Hilaire Belloc

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.
Hilaire Belloc

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
Tertullian

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
Jacques Barzun

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
Gore Vidal

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.
Helen Rowland

The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
Jean de la Bruyere

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.
Ethel Barrymore

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?
Charles Eames

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Percy Bysshe Shelley