Georgia O'Keeffe
Artist
"When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs."
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Erotic
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Karl Kraus
Playwright, Journalist
"Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse."
Mortimer Adler
Philosopher, Educator
"Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful."
Esther Perel
Psychotherapist, Author
"Erotic intelligence stretches far beyond a repertoire of sexual techniques. It is an intelligence that celebrates curiosity and play, the power of the imagination, and our infinite fascination with what is hidden and mysterious."
Marlene Dumas
Artist
"My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions.. with intrusions of irrelevant information."
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"A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Centre placed? Or ever marked the pretty beam, A strawberry shows, half drowned in cream? Or seen rich rubies blushing through A pure smooth pearl, and orient too? So like to this, nay all the rest, Is each neat niplet of her breast."
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"The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that is the true traffic of love."
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"Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science."
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"Fondling,' she saith, 'since I have hemm'd thee here Within the circuit of this ivory pale, I'll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer; Feed where thou wilt, on mountain or in dale: Graze on my lips, and if those hills be dry, Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie."
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"At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's all about."
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"By the mid 1920s the typical American town was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies, and an unsuspected sexual aid, the automobile."
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"I've done sexual stuff before - onstage, which is even more emotionally difficult. With a TV crew around, you are stopping and starting; it becomes really technical. It's not erotic at all."
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"A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking."
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"Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science."
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"I drink sherry and wine by myself because I like it and I get the sensuous feeling of indulgence...luxury, bliss, erotic-tinged."
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"Insights into erotic life belong to art, not education. But sometimes these have to be spelled out for the illiterates. And it ismainly a matter of convincing the illiterates, for they are the ones who write the penal code."
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"The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter"
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"Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken."
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"I was on top of Keanu Reeves, he was on his back and I was on my trunk, and I was breathing down his neck for hours and hours. It was... very erotic."
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"There's something vaguely erotic about watching a woman eat a banana while cupping two plums."
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"Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox: there is nothing more natural than sexual desire; there is nothing less natural than the forms in which it is made manifest and satisfied."
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"The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard's bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least erotic display of banana-eating he had ever seen."
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"Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness."
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"I want to be an artist, not an erotic freak. I don’t want to be sold to the public as a celluloid aphrodisiac."
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"All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity."
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