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Exlpore more Delight quotes

"Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometimes, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight."

"There is no delight in owning anything unshared."

"Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics."

"What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?"

"There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer."

"Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."

"The 'relative' delights the mind (manoranjan), the 'real' delights the Self (the soul, atmaranjan)."
Explore more quotes by Henri Matisse

"I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it."

"In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope."

"Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better."

"There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted."

"An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language."
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