Sensuous Quotes - Page 4

• Artistic form is congruent with the dynamic forms of our direct sensuous, mental, and emotional life; works of art are projections of "felt life", as Henry James called it, into spatial, temporal, and poetic structures.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Art, Emotional, Poetic

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• The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid. It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Sweet, Dying, World

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• There was this enormous burst of sculptural creative juice in the nineteenth century, and all that stuff is just so decorative. Even in pieces cast from a mold, you get a more sensuous, handmade, individual sense from it.

  Hugh Hardy

  Creative Juices, Mold, Pieces

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• I'm kind of a nervous person in general. I'm socially awkward. I'm not tall and sensuous. I usually wear sweats everywhere I go. Oh, and I burp a lot.

  Carrie Underwood

  Sweat, Awkward, Kind

  "Carrie Underwood Admits: 'I Burp A Lot'" by Arnesa A. Howell, people.com. June 10, 2008.

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• Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.

  George Santayana

  Intellectual, Elements, Harmony

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.267, 谷月社

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• [John] Adams's letters to [his wife] Abigail are wonderful. In his letters, he is loving, humorous, preachy, learned, and saucy. He speaks to her with almost complete abandon, revealing all of his sensuous and vulnerable nature.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Humorous, Wife, Letters

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• I love Indian food - it's my favourite cuisine. I love the mixture of spices and the subtle flavours. It's really erotic; the spices are so sensuous.

  Joe Perry

  Erotic, Spices, Mixtures

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• I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have, but I must say I cannot sympathise with these cries from the heart that are informed by nothing except a needle or a knife, or whatever it is.

  Sylvia Plath

  Heart, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

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• The film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth] opens with an Albanian blood feud and goes on to delve into, for instance, prison systems, underpaid tomato pickers, the gulf oil spill. It's all woven together in a sensuous, oblique way that's not the same as the single-message kind of documentary we're used to, with an "answer" at the end. It's more like an exploration. Sort of like what you do with Birth of a Nation.

  Margaret Atwood

  Oil, Blood, Together

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• Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Philosophy, Sensual

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• Love to me is - the final lines in Dante's Paradiso, when he says, "The love that moves the Sun and all the stars" - it's what draws us together, it's why we have leaky margins with each other. It is that sumptuous, sensuous, sensitive quickening that happens when we really know ourselves as love and see ourselves as loving.

  Jean Houston

  Stars, Moving, Together

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• I was drawn to photography as an extension of film, and the beauty of film is that it's a sensuous, fetishistic medium.

  Anton Yelchin

  Photography, Film, Mediums

  Source: www.pasunautre.com

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• Images are not only visual. They're also auditory, they involve sensuous impressions, bundles of information that come to us through our senses, and mainly through seeing and hearing: the audio-visual field.

  W. J. T. Mitchell

  Audio, Information, Hearing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.

  Carl Sandburg

  Sunset, Fire, Purple

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.319, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult! The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation. The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.

  Kate Chopin

  Sea, Voice, Seductive

  1899 The Awakening, ch.6.

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• Rock & roll is a type of sensuous music unfit for impressionable minds.

  Tip O'Neill

  Rocks, Mind, Type

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• And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.

  Friedrich Schleiermacher

  Art, Sensual, Embrace

  Friedrich Schleiermacher (1836). “Introductions to the Dialogues of Plato”, p.173

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• Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Sensual, Lessons, Reason

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• It is well if the good man himself does not feel his devotions a little clouded, those foggy sensuous steams mingling with and polluting the pure altar surface.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Good Man, Doe

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• Landscape is the creation of the one God - his sensuous image and revelation, through the investigation of which, by science or its representation by art, men's hearts are lifted toward him.

  James Jackson Jarves

  Art, Nature, Men

  James Jackson Jarves (1960). “The art-idea”

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• For all of my patients sensuality is a giving in to 'the low side of their nature.' Puritanism is powerful and distorts their life with a total anesthesia of the senses. If you atrophy one sense, you also atrophy all the others, a sensuous and physical connection with nature, with art, with food, with other human beings.

  Anais Nin

  Art, Powerful, Giving

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• The art of decoration requires the most sophisticated and self-indulgent skills. Its aim has always been to sate the senses as gloriously as possible. ... ornament is not only a source of sensuous pleasure; it supplies a necessary kind of magic to people and places that lack it. More than just a dread of empty spaces has led to the urge to decorate; it is the fear of empty selves.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Art, Self, Skills

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House

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• Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.

  Meridel Le Sueur

  Writing, Expression, Creative

  Meridel Le Sueur (1990). “Harvest song: collected essays and stories”, West End Pr

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• I know I shall not live very long. But why is that so sad? Is a festival more beautiful because it lasts longer? My sensuous perceptions grow sharper, as if I were supposed to take in everything with the few years that will be offered to me ... And now love will still blossom for me before I depart, and if I've painted three good pictures, then I shall leave gladly with flowers in my hand and my hair.

  Paula Modersohn-Becker

  Beautiful, Flower, Hair

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• The shape and texture of fruit is sensuous and fascinating, but the true delight blossoms when you experience the flavor of these colorful gifts of nature.

  DeBarra Mayo

  Shapes, Fruit, Texture

  "Juicy, Sensuous, Tasty...and Healthy". Bikini Body Fitness by DeBarra Mayo, m.ujena.com, December 22, 2006.

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