#mirrors

Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for its manipulability in the way we might with actual people. It’s all one big endless loop. We like the mirror and the mirror likes us. To friend a person is merely to include the person in our private hall of flattering mirrors. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#mirrors #narcissism #technology #love

Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors ↗

— Alejandra Pizarnik

#lust #mirrors #sex #lust

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#courage #cowardice #feelings #love #measure

I stayed away from mirrors when I was younger and I didn't like having my picture taken. I was tall and had braces and felt ugly. ↗

— Kylie Bax

#braces #felt #had #having #i

I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things. ↗

— Claude Chabrol

#i love #love #mirrors #pass #surface

It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians. ↗

— Chuck Close

#art #artists #certainly #does #find

I mean, I did a film, a musical of 'Scrooge', in '70, and the tricks were done by flat clothes and mirrors. I hope that the day will come when we don't have to turn up at all. ↗

— Albert Finney

#come #day #did #done #film

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

#crash #full #here #i #live

Lord knows, I never want to waste any more of my time in mirrors. ↗

— Lauren Hutton

#i #knows #lord #mirrors #more

Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it's a dream, but I ain't pinching myself yet. ↗

— Chris Brown

#around #dream #fun #having #i