#images

Never," enjoins a women's magazine, "mention the size of his [penis] in public...and never, ever let him know that anyone else knows or you may find it shrivels up and disappears, serving you right." That quotation acknowledges that critical sexual comparison is a direct anaphrodisiac when applied to men; either we do not yet recognize that it has exactly the same effect on women, or we do not care, or we understand on some level that right now that effect is desirable and appropriate. A man is unlikely to be brought within earshot of women as they judge men's appearance, height, muscle tone, sexual technique, penis size, personal grooming, or taste in clothes--all of which we do. The fact is that women are able to view men just as men view women, as objects for sexual and aesthetic evaluation; we too are effortlessly able to choose the male "ideal" from a lineup and if we could have male beauty as well as everything else, most of us would not say no. But so what? Given all that, women make the choice, by and large, to take men as human beings first. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#aging #beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics

I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have. ↗

— John Barton

#combining #dissimilar #drawing #i #ideas

As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#america #ancestors #been #beloved #echo

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#illusions #images #our #place #primarily

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#buy #courts #expensive #hints #images

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images. ↗

— James Broughton

#filled #films #images #like #page

It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more. ↗

— Ville Valo

#arts #away #bit #cool #existing

I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images. ↗

— Agnes Varda

#i #images #interested #just #looking

The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#disadvantage #eye #forms #gives #governs

In the next couple of years, part of every film's process is going to be to adjust the images. And it'll be to change the color of an actor's tie or change the little smirky thing he's doing with his mouth. Or you can put in more clouds or move the tree a little bit. ↗

— Robert Zemeckis

#adjust #bit #change #clouds #color