For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

The people recognise themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.

To be naked is to be without disguise. To be on display is to have the surface of one’s own skin, the hairs of one’s own body, turned into a disguise which, in that situation, can never be discarded. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.

Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves  being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and  women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of  woman in herself is male: the surveyed is female. Thus she turns herself  into an object of vision: a sight.

मुंच तव मनः


La bonne musique ne se trompe pas, et va droit au fond de l'âme chercher le chagrin qui nous dévore.

On aime à retrouver ses idées dans un livre plutôt qu'à y découvrir des idées nouvelles. On ne lit pas l'auteur, on se lit soi-même.

To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.