“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”

Jalaluddin Rumi

“If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.”

Osho

“I think we’re in a post-pornographic time and nothing seems shocking, but everything remains carnal no matter what you do.”

David Lachapelle

‘Pornography is a dumbed-down diagram leading to a cul-de-sac whose only destination is libidinal claustrophobia.’

Jug Suraiya

“The identifying of ourselves with the visual image of ourselves has become an instinct; the habit is already old. The picture of me, the me that is seen, is me. ”

D.H.Lawrence  Art and Morality (1925)

“You can’t depend on your eyes if your imagination is out of focus.”

Mark Twain

“People have done pornographic pictures forever, but most of the people who involve themselves in explicit sexuality aren’t really artists.”

Robert Mapplethorpe

“Selfies, they call ’em, and that makes sense ’cause even though they’re sending these pictures to others, it still smells like selfish to me. Is that why they call it an “I phone”? ‘Cause it’s all about me me me. Like talking to hear yourself talk.”

David Duchovny

“Today, I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between; I am not interested in all those films that do not pulse.”

François Truffaut, The Films in My Life

“We’re face to face with images all the time in a way that we never have been before. And that’s why I believe we need to stress visual literacy in our schools. Young people need to understand that not all images are there to be consumed like fast food and then forgotten–we need to educate […]