“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 (1920 – 2004)
“In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.”
Emile Zola
“One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.”
Harold Pinter
“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
Roberto Bolaño
“Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.”
John Donne
“All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.”
David Hockney
David Hockney – Peter Getting Out of Nick’s Pool, 1966, acrylic on canvas
“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
“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
“To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.”
Jose Bergamin
“Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.”
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