(47 quotes found)
“A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its beauty. And man needs spiritual expression and nourishing. It's why even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves. Man needs music, literature, and painting-all those oases of perfection that make up art-to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.”
Fernando Botero
“Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“What an antithetical mind! -- tenderness, roughness -- delicacy, coarseness -- sentiment, sensuality -- soaring and groveling, dirt and deity -- all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!”
Lord Byron
“Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them”
Henry David Thoreau
“I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.”
“Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry.”
Paul Taylor
“It's the purity of the fabrics, the sensuality of the look and the fact that everything's carefully hand-done.”
Nazila Sawhney
“Besides being very historical, it was also very sensual, lots of dialogue.”
Judith McNaught
“It's naive and sweet, yet at the same time it has a sensuality because it shows your breasts.”
Donna Karan
