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“Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life, the fundamentally big forces, and then express in his art whatever is the cause of his pleasure.”

Men Art Hands Bigs Force Causes Pleasure Expression Materials Truth Of Life

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“Studying music encourages self-discipline and diligence, traits that carry over into intellectual pursuits and that lead to effective study and work habits. An association of music and math has, in fact, long been noted. Creating and performing music promotes self-expression and provides self-gratification while giving pleasure to others. In medicine, increasing published reports demonstrate that music has a healing effect on patients. For all these reasons, it deserves strong support in our educational system, along with the other arts, the sciences, and athletics.”

“I don't think the role of style is different for a woman of any age. Style, to me, is about experimenting with what gives you pleasure, a joyous expression of imagination. I emphasize joyous because too much is written about fashion that takes the pleasure away - clothes that make you look thinner or clothes that make you look younger or, horrors, clothes that make other people envy you or that - double horrors - are "age appropriate".”

People Thinking Giving Looks Different Age Imagination Pleasure Roles Too Much Written Fashion Style Expression Horror Clothes Envy Appropriate Joyous

Author:Elizabeth Heyert

“If women take their bodies seriously and ideally we should then its full expression, in terms of pleasure, maternity, and physical strength, seems to fare better when women control the means of production and reproduction. From this point of view, it is simply not in women's interest to support patriarchy or even a fabled "equality" with men. That women do so is more a sign of powerlessness than of any biologically based "superior" wisdom.”

Ifs Men Should Mean Body Seems Term Interest Pleasure Views Support Expression Productions Point Of View Superiors Patriarchy Reproduction Powerlessness Maternity Physical Strength

Book:Women & madness

Source: Women & madness

“Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?”

Book Pleasure Expression Laughter Dresses Manners Historian Ridicule Old Time Merriment

Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

“The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others; or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased.”

Art Seems Pleasure Expression Amiable Voluptuous

Book:Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

“The writer's advantage, in some respects, over those whose expression lies in other fields, is in the privilege of a double - sometimes a triple - living. Pleasure multiplied in the mirrors of words, and pain siphoned off in words.”

Sometimes Pain Lying Pleasure Fields Expression Advantage Mirrors Privilege

Author:Josephine Winslow Johnson

“Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place.”

Firsts Values Song Pleasure Expression Listening Music Is Personal Expression

Author:Charles Duhigg

“Cliche refers to words, commonplace to ideas. Cliche describes the form or the letter, commonplace the substance or spirit. To confuse them is to confuse the thought with the expression of the thought. The cliche is immediately perceivable; the commonplace very often escapes notice if decked out in original dress. There are few examples, in any literature, of new ideas expressed in original form. The most critical mind must often be content with one or the other of these pleasures, only too happy when it is not deprived of both at once, which is not too rarely the case.”

Ifs Mind Ideas Form Spirit Literature Pleasure Cases Example Expression Letters Originals Dresses Critical Substance New Ideas Deprived Cliche Commonplace Often Is

Author:Remy de Gourmont

“The most important thing in love is the sense for one another, and the highest thing the faith in one another. Devotion is the expression of that faith, and pleasure can revive and enhance that sense, even if not create it, as is commonly thought. Therefore, sensuality can delude bad persons for a short time into thinking they could love each other.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Important Love Is Pleasure Expression Highest Important Things Devotion Sensuality Love Each Other Short Time Revive

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good cheer.”

Ifs Soul Pleasure Knowledge Expression Melancholy Cheer Good Cheer

Author:Thomas E. Mann

“The facts which have caused us to believe in the dominance of the pleasure principle in mental life also find expression in the hypothesis that the mental apparatus endeavours to keep the quantity of excitation present in it as low as possible or at least to keep it constant.”

Believe Facts Pleasure Principles Expression Lows Constant Quantity Hypothesis Dominance Endeavour

Book:Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Source: Beyond the Pleasure Principle