However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.
Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.
There is no inborn longing that shall not be fulfilled. I think that is as certain as the forgiveness of sins.
Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.
To look for total satisfaction in oneself is a futile endeavor. Since everything changes from moment to moment, where can self and where can satisfaction be found? Everybody is unhappy simply because of unfilled desire. Everybody is looking for something that isn't available.
I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future.
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
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.
It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.
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.
I'd rather dance than eat.
I get up every morning with a desire to do some creative work. This desire is made of the same stuff as the sexual desire, the desire to make money, or any other desire.
A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause.
I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.
We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art.
Learn to ask for what you want. The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for which is precisely where you were before you asked.
I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of it is just sheer desire.
Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul into a work, all that is noble in you, you cannot fail to find a kindred soul who understands you, and you do not need a host of such spirits. Is not that all an artist should wish for?
I wish to explore the beauty of everyday environments; in troubled times it is especially important to be aware of beauty and wonder.
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 have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic.
It is essential that the revelation we receive, the conception of an image which embraces a certain thing, which has no sense in itself, which has no subject, which means 'absolutely nothing' from the logical point of view.. ..should speak so strongly in us, evoke such agony or joy, that we feel compelled to paint.
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