“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

“What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot grasp the fact that a human foot is more noble than the shoe and the human skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed.”

Michelangelo

“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

“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

“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master-and that is what […]

“Negativity is the enemy of creativity.”

David Lynch

” Trash has given us an appetite for art.”

 Pauline Kael

“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”

Napoleon Bonaparte

And a warm welcome to all my new followers. It’s been a big week for my blog and my tumblrs!

Amanda xx