“Half of the pleasure of painting and feeling the joy of the creative act is sharing it with others and the feeling of connection. It could just be the colour. But it is something that someone other than you has seen and felt. It is momentous. It is magic.” FeelingsJoyFeltPleasureHalfCreativeMagicPaintingConnectionsColour Author:Sara Genn
“One of the pleasures of art is that it enables the mind to move in unanticipated directions, to make connections that may be in some sense errors but are fruitful nonetheless.” MindMayArtMovingPleasureArt IsConnectionsErrors Author:Donald Barthelme
“In every department of life--in its business and in its pleasures, in its beliefs and in its theories, in its material developments and in its spiritual connections--we thank God that we are not like our fathers.” SpiritualFatherBeliefPleasureProgressMaterialsTheoryDevelopmentConnectionsDepartmentThank GodOur FatherSpiritual Connection Author:James Anthony Froude
“What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.” SocialPleasureGriefArgumentConnectionsCommunicateFavorsObservation Author:Sir Fulke Greville
“For a writer, mail is not just a collection of bills and letters and offers to subscribe to Sports Illustrated. It's an umbilical cord, a connection to the outside world, the giver of pleasure and pain. It shapes the day, is the moment, inexorable as the tide, toward which all the hours rise and fall.” WorldMomentsPainFallSportsHoursPleasureOffersShapesLettersConnectionsBillsCollectionsMailTidesGiverOutside WorldCordsPain And PleasureInexorableRise And FallUmbilical CordSports Illustrated Author:Mameve Medwed
“I always have this sense of food as triangular, in that one point is nourishment, one point is connection, and one point is pleasure, and I always come at it from the pleasure and connection points, and the nourishment follows.” PleasureConnectionsNourishment Author:Crescent Dragonwagon
“A foreign minister, I will maintain it, can never be a good man of business if he is not an agreeable man of pleasure too. Half his business is done by the help of his pleasures: his views are carried on, and perhaps best, and most unsuspectedly, at balls, suppers, assemblies, and parties of pleasure; by intrigues with women, and connections insensibly formed with men, at those unguarded hours of amusement.” IfsMenDoneHelpingGovernmentHoursPleasureViewsPartyHalfConnectionsBallsMinistersGood ManIntrigueAmusementAssemblySupper Author:Lord Chesterfield
“Men must be ready, they must pride themselves and be happy to sacrifice their private pleasures, passions and interests, nay, their private friendships and dearest connections, when they stand in competition with the rights of society.” MenPassionInterestPleasureRightsSacrificeReadyPrideConnectionsCompetition Book:Warren-Adams Letters: Being Chiefly a Correspondence Among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren ... 1743-1814 Source: Warren-Adams Letters: Being Chiefly a Correspondence Among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren ... 1743-1814
“There's a huge difference between the shallow pleasure of instant applause and the long-lasting impact of true connection.” LongDifferencesPleasureHugeConnectionsImpactInstantLastingShallowApplauseLong LastingLasting Impact Author:Seth