“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

“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 express.”

Henri Matisse

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“Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.”

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“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

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“It’s Difficult to Make Predictions, Especially About the Future”

Yes, but who said it?

Niels Bohr? Samuel Goldwyn? K. K. Steincke? Robert Storm Petersen? Yogi Berra? Mark Twain? Nostradamus? Anonymous?

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“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.”

Orson Welles

“There is nothing more feminine than a blowjob. You naked on your knees. Your guy with his hand resting on the back of your head. A really good blowjob confirms some primal nostalgia. It puts the world in balance.”

Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls

“To use cinema is to invent it.”

Bernardo Bertolucci

“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”

Franz Kafka

“Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, […]