“We’re face to face with images all the time in a way that we never have been before. And that’s why I believe we need to stress visual literacy in our schools. Young people need to understand that not all images are there to be consumed like fast food and then forgotten–we need to educate […]
“How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn’t have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see… We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That’s why we like all the things that we […]
“The nude is not a depiction of reality, it is an idea.”
Kenneth Clark
“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
Oscar Wilde
“Dig a well before you are thirsty.”
Old Chinese Proverb
Perhaps one of the points of my blog? ;-)
“Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but they are never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a […]
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
Confucius
“My reaction to porn films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first 20 minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.”
Erica Jong
She said that in the 70’s when you actually had to go out to view pornography in cinemas.
Has much […]
