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The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

Quote by James Joyce about creation, existence, artists, god

Art and poetry, philosophy and the religious life, and that other life of refined pleasure and action in the conspicuous places of the world, are each of them confined to its own circle of ideas, and those who prosecute either of them are...

Quote by Walter Pater about art, philosophy, action, pleasure, poetry, life, magic, world

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Quote by Thomas Chandler Haliburton about contentment

The smell of love is a smell that one's discovers to be a very fresh, refined and exciting smell from the beginning and then it evolves into a kind of natural force that is interweave with sweats, with secretions, like a volcano, it begins with a...

Quote by Radu Anton Roman about garden, end, beginning, force, police, love

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