“Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them.”

D. H. LAWRENCE, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

“So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it.”

Herman Hesse

“All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.”

David Hockney

“A million zeros joined together do not, unfortunately, add up to one.”

C.G. Jung, The Undiscovered Self

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”

Ansel Adams

“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”

Federico García Lorca

“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, […]

“A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist – moving an audience through a movie … making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark.”

Gordon Willis

“People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?”

Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“A first point that must be noted, in attempting to depict the self unrelated to others, is that it exists only intermittently, and, when all is said, comparatively seldom.”

Michel Tournier, Friday