Interviewer: “Are photographs less powerful now because there are so many of them in the world?”
David Bailey: “No, it just makes the good ones even more powerful. Digital and Photoshop just moved mediocrity up a stop, that’s all. They’re still mediocre – they just look better.”
Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
Walker Evans
“Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.”
George Bernard Shaw
Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships
http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Dawn-Stray-Modern-Relationships/dp/0061707813
“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
