“I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film inside a studio where the colors are easier to control.”

Claude Chabrol

“The female nude – magical, erotic, aesthetic – has been modeled and painted since prehistory. Appearing rarely and awkwardly in the earliest art, she attained fulfillment and glory in ancient Greece. In their idealized treatment of the nude, The Greeks established a standard that only the asceticism of the Middle Ages ignored. The artists of […]

“Negativity is the enemy of creativity.”

David Lynch

“We read to know that we are not alone.”

William Nicholson

“Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and soft.”

Sven Nykvist, cinematographer

“Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual’s sovereignty.”

Mario Vargas Llosa

“Literature – creative literature – unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable”

Gertrude Stein

“Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.”

Søren Kierkegaard

“What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.”

David Levithan, Love Is the Higher Law

Something to think about given today’s events in Tunisia, France and Kuwait.

“Be the first to see what you see as you see it.”

Robert Bresson