No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow – and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.

Kenneth Clark

The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.

Marlene Dietrich

And if you possess both the interest and the legs?

As a female, you get indulged. A lot. But it has to work both ways. Quality males see this and enjoy the rewards […]

“Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac”

Timothy Leary

Follow me on about.me

Well, not a quote exactly. It’s from Being Digital by Negroponte. The book that started it all for me, pretty much. Published before Windows 95 even, how much did this man see?…

Former MIT President Jerome Wiesner tells a story about Zworykin’s visiting him one Saturday at the White House when Wiesner was JFK’s science adviser […]

Involuntary physiological reactions such as the wetness of a vagina and the stiffness of a penis are emotionally so satisfying (which means, simultaneously, so erotic) because they signal a kind of approval that lies utterly beyond rational manipulation. Erections and lubrication simply cannot be effected by willpower and are therefore particularly true and honest indices […]

“I have always found it odd that people who think passive aggressively ignoring a person is making a point to them. The only point it makes to anyone is your inability to articulate your point of view.”

Shannon L. Alder

“One of the things that gave me the most confidence in trying to make a film was seeing all the lousy films that I saw. Because I sat there and thought… Well, I don’t know a goddamn thing about movies, but I know I can make a film better than that.”

Stanley Kubrick

“The creative effort is a lot like sex. It’s not so much the equipment you have as what is in your mind. The real excitement and beauty is in what we think and feel and what we do about it.”

Kelly Borsheim

I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.

Helmut Newton

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

Rainer Maria Rilke