#ode

Is this the curse of modernity, to live in a world without judgment, without perspective, no context for understanding or distinguishing what is real and what is imagined, what is manipulated and what is by chance beautiful, what is shadow and what is flesh? ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#beauty

Never let a man put his hands on you without your permission. ↗

— Melda Beaty

#notions-of-beauty #supermodels #womens-s-fiction #beauty

The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed and not be self-conscious. ↗

— Bono

#photographs #self-conciousness #beauty

Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#moderation #philosophy #ugly #beauty

When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist. ↗

— Akhenaton

#beautiful #beautiful woman #brighter #charms #enlighten

I also want to get out there in the world and do some acting and fashion and modeling. ↗

— Nastia Liukin

#also #fashion #get #i #modeling

Is this the truth we knew, and then forgot? Maybe the lies are all that we've got But aren't they beautiful? ↗

— Sarah Slean

#modern-man #truth #beauty

There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#called #destroys #expression #good #kind

Any files I give to the model are downsized (typically 800x1200 pixels)... By not giving out my high resolution files, they cannot be used without my knowledge. ↗

— A.K. Nicholas

#downsized #model #modeling #nude #photographer

One of the many innovations of modernism was the new demands it placed on the audience. Music, painting, literature, even architecture, would never again be quite so 'easy' as they had been. ↗

— Peter Watson

#innovation #modernism #architecture