Effort Quote by Peter Sloterdijk

In the field of aesthetic theory, humans are pattern-seeking creatures. That can be seen in terms of musical structures, patternmaking, even in terms of…

— Kehinde Wiley

It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it…

— Clifford Geertz

“THE PEERLESS PRODIGIES OF PHYSICAL PHENOMENA AND GREAT PRESENTATION OF MARVELOUS LIVING HUMAN CURIOSITIES”

— Frederick Drimmer

The arts inform as well as stimulate; they challenge as well as satisfy. Their location is not limited to galleries, concert halls and theatres.…

— Elliot W. Eisner

I've always wanted to explore characters of all races, all genders, all ages. It just seems to me to be a natural way to…

— Alan Moore

“Some people are like human tuinals”

— Lou Reed

Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.

— Jeanne Moreau

“Curiously, anatomical reality in art was apparently a horrifying concept to the same men and women who lined up to see bodies at the…

— Deborah Davis

“The sexual act of coitus and the body parts employed for it are so repulsive that, if it were not for the beauty of…

— Walter Isaacson

Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making.

— Norman Angell

Artists, actors, people like that, they live in a very strange bubble of their own. They're mollycoddled; they're highly privileged.

— Steve Wynn

I'm not interested in showing the wish of what it looks like to be human. I'm interested in showing what it actually looks like.

— Maggie Gyllenhaal