There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.

-Gauguin, Paul
  Letter to Emile Schuffenecker.

I'll come no more behind your scenes,David: for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  In conversation with the actor-manager David Garrick. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.1.