#magazines

Men who read it [beauty pornography] don't do so because they want women who look like that. The attraction of what they are holding is that it is not a woman, but a two-dimensional woman-shaped blank. The appeal of the material is not the fantasy that the model will come to life; it is precisely that she will not, ever. Her coming to life would ruin the vision. It is not about life. Ideal beauty is ideal because it does not exist; The action lies in the gap between desire and gratification. Women are not perfect beauties without distance. That space, in a consumer culture, is a lucrative one. The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage, its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

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

Sadly, the signals that allow men and women to find the partners who most please them are scrambled by the sexual insecurity initiated by beauty thinking. A woman who is self-conscious can't relax to let her sensuality come into play. If she is hungry she will be tense. If she is "done up" she will be on the alert for her reflection in his eyes. If she is ashamed of her body, its movement will be stilled. If she does not feel entitled to claim attention, she will not demand that airspace to shine in. If his field of vision has been boxed in by "beauty"--a box continually shrinking--he simply will not see her, his real love, standing right before him. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

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

I love magazines. It's such McNugget kind of information. ↗

— Scott Adams

#i love #information #kind #love #magazines

I enjoy doing digital work. I enjoy sculpting digitally. I've had my digital sculptures on covers of the top digital magazines. ↗

— Rick Baker

#digital #digitally #doing #enjoy #had

I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company. ↗

— Luther Allison

#allison #company #getting #good #good people

The industry has died as far as modeling has gone, and I'll tell you why. Magazines are featuring the Halle Berrys and Sarah Jessica Parkers, all the actresses. Makeup companies are featuring all the celebrities. All the models have died. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

#celebrities #companies #died #far #featuring

I've thought about it a hundred times. I even buy bridal magazines sometimes. I want David Tutera to do my wedding. ↗

— Marlen Esparza

#bridal #buy #david #even #hundred

I'm just doing little bits and pieces for other magazines right now. ↗

— Jhonen Vasquez

#bits and pieces #doing #i #just #little

I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#career #could #family #i #influenced

The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#magazines #music #musicianship #nothing #played