“Let the painter composing narrative pictures take pleasure in wealth and variety, and avoid repeating any part that occurs in it, so that the uniqueness and abundance attract people to it and delight the eye of the observer. I say that a narrative painting requires (depending on the scene), wherever the eye falls, a mixture of men of diverse appearances, of diverse ages and dress, combined together with women, children, dogs, horses, buildings, fields, and hills.” PeopleMenChildrenEyeAgeTogetherFallWealthPleasureDogFieldsBuildingPaintingSceneHorseDressesDelightAppearancePainterVarietyHillsNarrativeAbundanceDiverseUniquenessObserversMixturesComposing Author:Leonardo da Vinci
“It is a quite special secret pleasure how the people around us fail to realize what is really happening to them.” PeopleRealizingPleasureSecretFailingSpecialHappenings Author:Adolf Hitler
“Toronto's likable, but it could be a lot more, as I think Montreal is, lovable. What we need more than anything, I think, is a great pedestrian promenade. Pick a busy streetscape, close it to cars forever, and it will fill with people enjoying nothing more than the pleasure of their own company.” PeopleThinkingNeedsEnjoyPleasureCompanyForeverCarPicksBusyTorontoLovablePedestriansMontrealPromenade Author:Andy Barrie
“Why should people ever take credit for charity when they must know that they cannot gain as much pleasure out of their guineas in any other fashion?” PeopleKnowsShouldPleasureFashionGainsCharityCreditGuinea Book:Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)
“It sounds schmaltzy to say, but fiction is much more to do with love than people admit or acknowledge. The novelist has to not only love his characters - which you do, without even thinking about it, just as you love your children. But also to love the reader, and that's what I mean by the pleasure principle.” PeopleThinkingMeanChildrenCharacterSoundPleasureFictionPrinciplesLove YouReaderOur ChildrenAcknowledgeNovelistsYour ChildrenOnly LoveLove Your Children Author:Martin Amis
“Working with the actors, working with production designers, working with the creative people who surround the process is really fun, it's really inspiring and I take great pleasure in working with them. That's what's most fun about directing.” PeopleActorsFunProcessPleasureCreativeProductionsDesignerSurroundCreative PeopleReally Inspiring Author:Marc Webb
“I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me that beneath a cloak of clever talk it proscribes all energy, all originality. If you are not a copy, people accuse you of being ill-mannered.” PeopleIfsSeemsEnergyPleasureIllCleverCopiesOriginalityCloaks Book:Armance Source: Armance