“For art is about desire, is it not, and never its consummation?”
“Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.”
“...anticipation of happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its consummation.”
“Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It's a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some apes will never be men, not in all the world's ages.”
“After so much time spent in painful labor, to arrive at once at the summit of my desires was the most gratifying consummation of my toils.”
“Never judge a work of art by its defects”