Desire Quotes

Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.

Draw and paint the subject the way you want it to be, not as it is.

I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

Of course there must be the urge, the indefinable longing to get something through into terms of plastic presentation, but results are nearly always unpredictable.

I wish to explore the beauty of everyday environments; in troubled times it is especially important to be aware of beauty and wonder.

We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art.

I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.

If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.

However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.

I don't have a driving desire to be all encompassing and world powerful or anything.

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

I have no desire to carry a movie.

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.

Art was born as a desire, not as a demand.

What is it men in women do require: The lineaments of gratified desire. What is it women do in men require: The lineaments of gratified desire.

All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.

Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it.

Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are destined to get there... but our beating hearts drive us deep down, right into the pit of creation.

A man of but mediocre talent who is furiously driven by deep desire will get somewhere. He who doesn't desire deeply isn't hurt much by failure.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more, half-successful, effort of creation, and produce the Classicism that is common to all dying Cultures. The soul thinks once again, and in Romanticism looks back piteously to its childhood; then finally, weary, reluctant, cold, it loses its desire to be, and, as in Imperial Rome, wishes itself out of the overlong daylight and back in the darkness of protomysticism in the womb of the mother in the grave.

[Books] may sleep for a while and be neglected; but whenever the desire of information springs up in the human breast, there they are with mild wisdom ready to instruct and please us.

You will not see that desire begets love, until it all flames into one concise and metallic blaze.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

If there are sound reasons or bases for the points you demand, then there is no need for violence. On the other hand, when there is no sound reason that concessions should be made to you but mainly your own desire, then reason cannot work and you have to rely on force. Thus using force is not a sign of strength but rather a sign of weakness.

An honest self-portrait is extremely rare because a man who has reached the degree of self-consciousness presupposed by the desire to paint his own portrait has almost always also developed an ego-consciousness which paints himself painting himself, and introduces artificial highlights and dramatic shadows.

I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

People hunger for more attention. Full attention will be the aphrodisiac of the future.

The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined by greed and the insatiable desire to be the richest and most powerful. And that desire is limitless.

An affirmation is simply a positive declaration of something you believe to be true or something you expect to become true and desire to live by. Affirmations transform your thinking, your attitudes, and finally, your behavior. Their impact on attitudes and behavior help to produce the results you desire.