#voyeur

In this image (watching sensual murder through a peephole) Lorrain embodies the criminal delight of decadent art. The watcher who records the crimes (both the artist and consumer of art) is constructed as marginal, powerless to act, and so exculpated from action, passive subject of a complex pleasure, condemning and yet enjoying suffering imposed on others, and condemning himself for his own enjoyment. In this masochistic celebration of disempowerment, the sharpest pleasure recorded is that of the death of some important part of humanity. The dignity of human life is the ultimate victim of Lorrain's art, thrown away on a welter of delighted self-disgust. ↗

— Jennifer Birkett

#consumer #decadence #decadent #diginty #disempowerment

There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place? ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#responsibility #voyeurism #innocence

I don't like being a voyeur, looking into other people's marriages. ↗

— Paul Begala

#i #into #like #looking #marriages

Sam laughed, a funny, self-deprecating laugh. "You did read a lot. And spent too much time just inside the kitchen window, where I couldn't see you very well." "And not enough time mostly naked in front of my bedroom window?" I teased. Sam turned bright red. "That," he said, "is so not the point of this conversation. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#romance #sweet-talk #voyeurism #funny

People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is basically what reality shows are, for so long. ↗

— Stephen Root

#because #computers #long #more #only

Neighbors are the most indecent sort of folk around. Nothing but voyeurs and gossipers. As a community we would be much better off without them. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #gossiping #humor #neighbors #voyeurism

...it was a miraculous thing to be able to watch the person you love undetected, ↗

— Ann Patchett

#voyeurism #love

I feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean's life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#almost #bean #bizarre #camera #feel

I'm a real voyeur. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#real #voyeur

My voyeur stops paying attention to me the moment I stop having sex, but my stalker is more dependable. He’s more interested in my life as a whole, and that’s why I'm going to spend the rest of it with him. As for my voyeur, I want to turn down his marriage proposal, but I know he’ll just be there on my wedding night anyway. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #love #marriage #stalker #voyeurism