“I don't really have guilty pleasures. Anything musically that I fully, fully believe, is good no matter who the artist is, no matter what the marketing is behind it, I stand pretty firm.” BelieveMatterArtistPleasureBehindsNo Matter WhatMarketingGuiltyFirmGuilty Pleasure Author:Solange Knowles
“Skilled work, of no matter what kind, is only done well by those who take a certain pleasure in it, quite apart from its utility, either to themselves in earning a living, or to the world through its outcome.” WorldWellsKindMatterDoneCertainWorkPleasureNo Matter WhatOutcomesMotiveEarningUtilityEarning A Living Author:Bertrand Russell
“That was an important development for me, just realizing that you need to follow your pleasure, at least as a painter. I think any kind of artist needs to, no matter what you're doing.” ThinkingNeedsKindImportantMatterArtistRealizingPleasureDevelopmentNo Matter WhatPainter Author:John Currin
“In the natural order no matter what ideals may be theoretically possible, most people more or less live for themselves and for their own interests and pleasures or for those of their own family or group, and therefore they are constantly interfering with one another's aims, and hurting one another and injuring one another, whether they mean it or not.” PeopleMayMeanMatterOrderInterestNaturalHurtPleasureGroupsIdealsAimNo Matter WhatInterfereNatural Order Book:The Seven Storey Mountain Source: The Seven Storey Mountain
“There is a sensuousness to language, there's a pace to it. There's a deliciousness to it. I do have pleasure when I'm writing. I mean, I'm aware of pleasure. And sometimes I make myself laugh, with a joke or something; or I feel gleeful. But that's just momentary. And then it's about how to make it work. Your medium has to be alive to you, no matter what you do.” FeelsWritingMeanSometimesMatterLanguagePleasureLaughingAliveJokesNo Matter WhatMediumsPaceMomentary Author:Jonathan Santlofer
“I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a vein which nature seems to have marked with more or less strength, in the tempers of most men. No matter what the object is, whether business, pleasures or the fine arts: whoever pursues them to any purpose must do so con amore.” MenMindLooksArtMatterSeemsPurposeTurnsPleasureObjectsFineNo Matter WhatPursueEnthusiasmLook UpTemperVeinsFine Arts Book:Fitzosborne's Letters on Several Subjects Source: Fitzosborne's Letters on Several Subjects