Quote of the Day – July 31 2016
“To use cinema is to invent it.”
Bernardo Bertolucci
Quote of the Day – July 30 2016
“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
Franz Kafka
Quote of the Day – July 29 2017
“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, […]
Quote of the Day – July 28 2016
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.
I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, […]
The 45 most seductive women of all time
From the article at buro24/7.com.au:
“What makes a woman seductive? If you ask Leonardo da Vinci, it’s the mysterious, beguiling smile of a certain Mona Lisa. For Botticelli, it was tendrils of golden locks swirling around an angelic Venus in a clam shell, and for Mark Antony, Cleopatra’s kohl-rimmed eyes, jet-black hair and sharp […]
The great art cover-up: Renaissance nudity still has power to shock
From the article by Jonathon Jones in The Guardian:
Sistine Chapel buttocks are veiled, while Leonardo’s Leda was so saucy she was destroyed. But prudish censorship only confirms the pulling power of art.
You never know what will offend people. Researchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered that a skirt […]
Article: If famous works of romantic fiction were written while dating in 2016
From the article from The Daily Life by Clem Bastow:
“Last week, after another no-show Tinder date, I poured my heart out in a Facebook status (diaries are for chumps): despite my enduring optimism about meeting someone, I couldn’t shake the feeling that something had shifted, generationally, and those of us who […]
Quote of the Day – July 26 2016
“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
Quote of the Day – July 25 2016
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
Soren Kierkegaard
Quote of the Day – July 24 2016
“When I get down on my knees it is not to pray.”
Madonna (When she was hot)
