“People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?”

Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“A first point that must be noted, in attempting to depict the self unrelated to others, is that it exists only intermittently, and, when all is said, comparatively seldom.”

Michel Tournier, Friday

“Little girls think it’s necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it’s a shame…I’m all about mystery.”

Stevie Nicks

“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.”

Orson Welles

“I don’t know, monogamy is a weird thing for me.”

Sienna Miller

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

Søren Kierkegaard

“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”

Dorothea Lange

“Trash has given us an appetite for art.”

 Pauline Kael

“We were created to look at one another, weren’t we”

Edgar Degas