Pleasure

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind read more

Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.

Anticipation makes the pleasure.

Anticipation makes the pleasure.

For some, pleasure is a fever they can't shake. For others, it's a disease they cannot seem to catch.

For some, pleasure is a fever they can't shake. For others, it's a disease they cannot seem to catch.

Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins.

Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins.

There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.