“There is beauty in truth, even if it’s painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy, brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak. But lies only strengthen our defects. They don’t teach anything, help anything, fix anything or cure anything. Nor do they develop one’s character, one’s […]
From Wikipedia:
Gered Mankowitz (Born 3 August 1946) is an English photographer who focused his career in the music industry. He has worked with a large number of well-known artists, from The Rolling Stones to Jimi Hendrix, and many of his photographs became the covers of these artists’ most successful albums. He has worked in all […]
“The more closely we analyze what we consider ‘sexy,’ the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at finding another human being who shares our values and our sense of the meaning of existence.”
Alain de Botton
From article:
According to Dr Susan Hopkins, lecturer in communications at the University of Southern Queensland, who has studied the contents of lads’ mags, the tone in such publications had sunk so low that it made “aggressive and predatory views” towards women normal.
She told ABC radio in June that though the editors of Zoo “try to […]
“Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I’m going to take tomorrow.”
Imogen Cunningham
“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.”
Diane Arbus
“…considering that sex is a pretty significant preoccupation for society in general, and considering that pornography can be accessed by anyone with a Wi-Fi connection, the surprise is not that there is so much sex in today’s art-house cinema. It’s that there’s so little. On-screen disembowellings are commonplace, after all. Shouldn’t we be perturbed that […]
“People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It’s not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn’t know it was missing.”
Paola Antonelli
“In a world in which fake enthusiasms are rife, in which it is often hard to tell whether people really like us or whether they are being kind to us merely out of a sense of duty, the wet vagina and the stiff penis function as unambiguous agents of sincerity.”
“What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.”
Vanessa Marcil
