Quote of the Day – February 4 2021
“The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.” Sigmund Freud, Sexuality and the Psychology of Love [...]
Quote of the Day – February 3 2021
“In this land some of us fuck more than we die but most of us die better than we fuck” Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell An evolutionary arms race? Biology fascinates me [...]
Quote of the Day – February 2 2021
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 Quotes for Lovers who talk [...]
Quote of the Day – February 1 2021
"Blake said that the body was the soul’s prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the ‘windows of the soul.’ When sex involves all the senses intensely, it [...]
Quote of the Day – January 31 2021
“Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.” Rimy de Gourmont Thoughts for Lovers! History of Erotica
Quote of the Day – September 11 2019
“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 [...]
Quote of the Day – September 10 2019
“If you go home with somebody, and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ’em!” John Waters Thoughts for Lovers! History of Erotica
Quote of the Day – September 9 2019
"Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex." Havelock Ellis Thoughts for Lovers! History of Erotica [...]
Quote of the Day – September 8 2019
“Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition. The best it aims for is the creation of strong, [...]
Quote of the Day – September 6 2019
“What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.” Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler [...]
Quote of the Day – September 4 2019
"There is no apology for my degree of indulgence in ecstasy." Kamala Devi Quotes for Lovers who talk in bed! History of Erotica
Quote of the Day – September 3 2019
“People have done pornographic pictures forever, but most of the people who involve themselves in explicit sexuality aren’t really artists.” Robert Mapplethorpe Quotes for Lovers who talk in bed! History [...]
Quote of the Day – February 5 2021
“Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.” Simone de Beauvoir
Quote of the Day – August 31 2019
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 [...]
Quote of the Day – August 30 2019
"That erotic and pornographic photographs were produced almost from the medium’s inception should come as no surprise. That it does so is a testimonial only to the near-total elision of this fact from the standard [...]
Quote of the Day – August 21 2019
“It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.” Paul Strand
Quote of the Day – August 20 2019
"The difference between porn and erotica is the lighting." Gloria Leonard
Quote of the Day – December 12 2018
“I will only let you touch me if your hands are so full of intention that every brush of your palms feels like you writing a novel on my skin” Azra.T from “Braille
Quote of the Day – December 11 2018
“If you bring your sexual impulses to your creative work… you’ll be working from deep in the genetic code, down where life wants to make new life and feel good in the process.” Eric Maisel
Quote of the Day – December 10 2018
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 [...]
Quote of the Day – January 8 2017
“Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.” Ovid
Quote of the Day – January 7 2017
"Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it. " Bertolt Brecht
Quote of the Day – January 6 2017
“Religious guilt causes people to deny their behavior even as they engage in it. Guilt short-circuits rational examination of behavior in favor of supernatural notions like "evil" and "the temptation of Satan.” Darrel Ray, ED.D., [...]
Quote of the Day – January 5 2017
"A good fuck can make even an agnostic see God." K.D. West, The Visitor Entertains
Quote of the Day – January 4 2017
"Is the cinema more important than life?" Francois Truffaut
Quote of the Day – December 29 2016
"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes." Walt Whitman
Quote of the Day – December 28 2016
‘A poem is never finished, it’s only abandoned.’ Paul Valery, French poet
Quote of the Day – December 27 2016
“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” Oscar Wilde
Quote of the Day – December 26 2017
“Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden.” Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer
Quote of the Day – December 25 2016
"I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books [...]
Quote of the Day – December 24 2017
“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” Jalaluddin Rumi
Quote of the Day – December 23 2016
“If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love [...]
Quote of the Day – December 22 2016
"I think we’re in a post-pornographic time and nothing seems shocking, but everything remains carnal no matter what you do." David Lachapelle
Quote of the Day – December 21 2016
'Pornography is a dumbed-down diagram leading to a cul-de-sac whose only destination is libidinal claustrophobia.' Jug Suraiya
Quote of the Day – December 20 2016
"The identifying of ourselves with the visual image of ourselves has become an instinct; the habit is already old. The picture of me, the me that is seen, is me. " D.H.Lawrence Art and Morality [...]
Quote of the Day – December 19 2016
"You can't depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus." Mark Twain
Quote of the Day – December 17 2016
"People have done pornographic pictures forever, but most of the people who involve themselves in explicit sexuality aren't really artists." Robert Mapplethorpe
Quote of the Day – December 16 2016
“Selfies, they call 'em, and that makes sense 'cause even though they're sending these pictures to others, it still smells like selfish to me. Is that why they call it an "I phone"? 'Cause it's [...]
Quote of the Day – December 14 2016
“Today, I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between; I am not interested in all [...]
Quote of the Day – December 13 2016
"We’re face to face with images all the time in a way that we never have been before. And that’s why I believe we need to stress visual literacy in our schools. Young people need [...]
Quote of the Day – December 12 2016
"How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn’t have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they [...]
Quote of the Day – December 11 2016
"The nude is not a depiction of reality, it is an idea." Kenneth Clark
Quote of the Day – December 10 2016
“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
Quote of the Day – December 9 2016
"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." Oscar Wilde
Quote of the Day – December 8 2016
“Dig a well before you are thirsty.” Old Chinese Proverb Perhaps one of the points of my blog? ;-)
Quote of the Day – December 6 2016
"Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but they are never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between [...]
Quote of the Day – December 5 2016
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” Confucius
Quote of the Day – December 4 2016
"There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are" Ernst Haas
Quote of the Day – December 3 2016
"My reaction to porn films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first 20 minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I [...]
Quote of the Day – December 2 2016
"The minute someone says, "Oh God, you could never do that; you can't get that kind of stuff on the air!" . . . that's the kind of stuff I want to do." Elizabeth Montgomery [...]
Quote of the Day – December 1 2016
"Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant" Victor Hugo
Quote of the Day – November 30 2016
"I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not." Gordon Willis
Quote of the Day – November 29 2016
"Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism." John Updike Hugging the Shore (1983).
Quote of the Day – November 28 2016
“The knowledge of photography is just as important as that of the alphabet. The illiterate of the future will be ignorant of pen and camera alike” Maholy-Nagy (Bauhaus master, 1935)
Quote of the Day – November 27 2016
"I feel less danger photographing wild animals than living with civilized people." Laurent Baheux His website: http://laurentbaheux.com/ Follow Laurent Baheux on twitter: https://twitter.com/laurentbaheux Laurent Baheux on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LaurentBaheuxPhoto
Quote of the Day – November 26 2016
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." Albert Einstein
Quote of the Day – November 25 2016
"We're being misled and misinformed by an unfounded yet constantly repeated mantra about the naturalness of wedded bliss, female sexual reticence, and happily-ever-after sexual monogamy—a narrative pitting man against woman in a tragic tango of [...]
Quote of the Day – November 24 2016
There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it. Elizabeth A. Behnke
Quote of the Day – November 23 2016
"Isn’t it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?" Joy Adamson author of Born Free. Note: The pic is of a dolphin being loaded on to a truck after having been [...]
Quote of the Day – November 22 2016
"Movie-making is the process of turning money into light. All they have at the end of the day is images flickering on a wall." John Boorman, Money into Light, 1985 (Director of Deliverance, Hope and [...]
Quote of the Day – November 21 2016
"There are only three ages for women in Hollywood - Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy." Goldie Hawn
Quote of the Day – November 20 2016
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” Pablo Picasso
Quote of the Day – November 19 2016
"The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races." FERNANDO PESSOA, The Book of Disquiet
Quote of the Day – November 18 2016
“I love a library. The idea of reading books for free didn’t kill the publishing business, on the contrary, it created nations of literate and passionate readers. Shared interests and the impulse to create.” David [...]
Quote of the Day – November 17 2016
“Your acting will not be good until it is only yours. That’s true of music, acting, anything creative. You work until finally nobody is acting like you.” Sanford Meisner Same with every action in [...]
Quote of the Day – November 16 2016
"Recently, photography has become almost as widely practiced an amusement as sex and dancing - which means that, like every mass art form, photography is not practiced by most people as an art. It is [...]
Quote of the Day – November 15 2016
“Intellectual, imaginative, romantic, emotional. This is what gives sex its surprising textures, its subtle transformations, its aphrodisiac elements. Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a [...]
Quote of the Day – November 14 2016
“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
Quote of the Day – November 13 2016
"For 2,000 years, women's sexuality has been judged and put to shame -'harlot,' 'whore'. Before that, it was worshiped and respected" Sheryl Lee
Quote of the Day – November 12 2016
Art…affects a person’s emotions, not his reason…When you see a good film…you are disarmed & entranced from the start—but not by an idea, not by a thought… The idea of a great work…is as multi-faceted [...]
Quote of the Day – November 11 2016
“Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.” C.S. Lewis
Quote of the Day – November 10 2016
“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… The ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree [...]
Quote of the Day – November 9 2016
"Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask ‘how’, while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why’. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information." Man Ray
Quote of the Day – November 8 2016
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 [...]
Quote of the Day – November 7 2016
"No description is as difficult as the description of self" Michel de Montaigne
Quote of the Day – November 6 2016
" You do not have to believe, like Schopenhauer, that the outer man is a picture of the inner, or that the face is a manifestation of the soul. From the infant's ability to read [...]
Quote of the Day – November 5 2016
"Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so [...]
Quote of the Day – November 4 2016
"Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible." Rene Magritte
Quote of the Day – November 3 2016
"Photography when used as a representational art is not a mere copy of nature. This is proved by the rarity of the “good” photograph. Only now and then does one find really “good” photographs among [...]
Quote of the Day – November 2 2016
"What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity." Berenice Abbott
Quote of the Day – November 1 2016
“It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the [...]
Quote of the Day – October 31 2016
"Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity." Democritus c. 460 – c. 370 BC
Quote of the Day – October 30 2018
"There is something missing in a lot of digital filmmaking, something I call “poetic reality.” That’s something you see played out in film noir, where the technique establishes the mood. If you do not bother [...]
Quote of the Day – October 29 2016
"Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self. " Jean-Luc Godard
Quote of the Day – October 28 2016
“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.” Robert Frank Image credit: Robert Frank - London, 1951-1952
Quote of the Day – October 27 2016
"Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema." David Lynch
Quote of the Day – October 26 2016
"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 Gordon Willis was an [...]
Quote of the Day – October 25 2016
“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.” Henri Cartier-Bresson Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004) was a French photographer considered the master of candid photography, and an early user of 35 mm [...]
Quote of the Day – October 24 2016
“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 [...]
Quote of the Day – October 23 2016
“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 [...]
