Quote of the Day – November 21 2016
“There are only three ages for women in Hollywood – Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.”
Goldie Hawn
“There are only three ages for women in Hollywood – Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.”
Goldie Hawn
Pablo Picasso
“The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.”
FERNANDO PESSOA, The Book of Disquiet
“I love a library. The idea of reading books for free didn’t kill the publishing business, on the contrary, it created nations of literate and passionate readers. Shared interests and the impulse to create.”
David Byrne
“Your acting will not be good until it is only yours. That’s true of music, acting, anything creative. You work until finally nobody is acting like you.”
Sanford Meisner
Same with every action in life really. Sex is no different!
Amanda
“Recently, photography has become almost as widely practiced an amusement as sex and dancing – which means that, like every mass art form, photography is not practiced by most people as an art. It is mainly a social rite, a defense against anxiety, and a tool of power.”
Susan Sontag, “On Photography”
Amazing how prescient Sontag was!
Amanda
“Intellectual, imaginative, romantic, emotional. This is what gives sex its surprising textures, its subtle transformations, its aphrodisiac elements.
Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a mechanistic obsession. It becomes a bore. You are shrinking your world of sensations. You are withering it, starving it, draining its […]
“It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along”
Germaine Greer
“For 2,000 years, women’s sexuality has been judged and put to shame -‘harlot,’ ‘whore’. Before that, it was worshiped and respected”
Sheryl Lee
Art…affects a person’s emotions, not his reason…When you see a good film…you are disarmed & entranced from the start—but not by an idea, not by a thought…
The idea of a great work…is as multi-faceted & indefinite as life itself. The author cannot therefore reckon on his work being understood in one particular way. All he […]
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