Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near nausea, much of it induced by trifles, which used to belong to people who were at once ill-adjusted and over-civilized?
Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.
Art making comes from the human desire to share something that is universal in one sense, but unique to your sensibility in another. I think that, wherever you are in the world, that impulse exists within human beings.
Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.
When I started doing improvise music in Europe, in the beginning I thought the way that Europeans were interpreting the reconstruction of deconstruction of this thing that we call jazz - of course it's different than what Americans do, because Europeans have a different history, a different sensibility and so forth - the nature of the creative process itself it's the same; but what comes from that creative process is different, because you have a different history, you have a different society, different language.
I like my quiet time. There is a writer's sensibility in me sometimes, where I step back.
The thing about Proust is his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity. He searches out these butterfly shades to the last grain. He is as tough as catgut and as evanescent as a butterfly's bloom.
The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that is the true traffic of love.
My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.
There's something about the American sensibility that kind of hails people in the public eye. You have a star system. You have that kind of thing where you say, "Good on you for doing that. "
I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude.
We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility
Some women destroy all your sensibility towards them by their coldness, others by their heat.
One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then. . . to bridge that sensibility of old Victorian Gothic tales and reconstruct them in a modern way.
Too quick a sense of constant infelicity.
Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment.
Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.
The exercise of criticism always destroys for a time our sensibility to beauty by leading us to regard the work in relation to certain laws of construction. The eye turns from the charms of nature to fix itself upon the servile dexterity of art.
I like that New York sensibility where you can be edgy, but still super-glamorous.
Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. --Marianne Dashwood
