“The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.”

Max Beerbohm

“The point for me is to create relationships based on deeper and more real notions of trust. So that love becomes defined not by sexual exclusivity, but by actual respect, concern, commitment to act with kind intentions, accountability for our actions, and a desire for mutual growth.”

Dean Spade

“What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot grasp the fact that a human foot is more noble than the shoe and the human skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed.”

Michelangelo

“What I hate is ignorance, smallness of imagination, the eye that sees no farther than its own lashes.

All things are possible.

Who you are is limited only by who you think you are.”

From The Egyptian Book of the Dead

“It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along”

Germaine Greer

“The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning… The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express.”

Henri Matisse

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“Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.”

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“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

Image: Manhattan 1979. Cinematography by Gordon Willis

“It’s Difficult to Make Predictions, Especially About the Future”

Yes, but who said it?

Niels Bohr? Samuel Goldwyn? K. K. Steincke? Robert Storm Petersen? Yogi Berra? Mark Twain? Nostradamus? Anonymous?

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“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.”

Orson Welles