Toni Morrison Quotes

But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.

I think that the romantic suspense that you used to get between people like Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant is much sexier than seeing people taking their clothes off and getting into bed, which is voyeurism.

Eroticism is born at a time in civilisation when sexual instinct becomes deanimalised and enriched with contributions from art and from literature. A world of theatricality emerges around the act of love.

I've always enjoyed sex scenes, though you're not really supposed to. The classic answer is, 'Oh, it's not sexy at all because there are so many technicians standing around.' But I've always found them extremely arousing.

Cara waggled a hand over the two of them. "It works better with your clothes off." Richard frowned. His voice came as a hoarse croak. "What?" She seemed mystified by the question. "I believe you will find such things work better without clothes." She put her hands to her hips. "I thought you would know at least that much.

I'm a writer who never writes about sex. It's so far from my own fictional world.

Sex is hard to write about because you lose the universal and succumb to the particular. We all have our different favorites. Good sex is impossible to write about. Lawrence and Updike have given it their all, and the result is still uneasy and unsure. It may be that good sex is something fiction just can't do - like dreams. Most of the sex in my novels is absolutely disastrous. Sex can be funny, but not very sexy.

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.

It's difficult for me to say, but I don't think the sex scenes are particularly erotic.

I think of myself as a highly sexual creature.

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

We were talking about the kissing in the movie just recently. Clearly, it's pretty challenging material, but Ang said two men herding sheep was far more sexual than two men having sex on screen.

It's about giving the people what they want. So many people have told me that they've made love to my records so what I've delivered this time is an album about sex. Pretty much every song has that theme. Straight no chasers, it's booty music!

Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.

You may think of me as an object of desire and I'm going to tell you that I can be in front of you naked and not be erotic.

It is a sexy country. We are very free with our bodies.

Sex is energy.

If you're going to be sexy in a photo, you'd better be thinking about sex rather than about being sexy.

I had never done anything like I had done in 'Masters of Sex.' Those are some very adventurous scenes.

When I completely submerge my sensuality or my sexuality, I'm not very interesting.

My works tends to be erotic.

I think exciting sexuality is part of the fantasy, part of the entertainment of a love story.

I have always loved anything sexy.

XVII Lady, i will touch you with my mind. Touch you and touch and touch until you give me suddenly a smile,shyly obscene (lady i will touch you with my mind.)Touch you,that is all, lightly and you utterly will become with infinite care the poem which i do not write.

I don't mind being sexy, but on my terms. To this day, I love sexuality. I love the art of sexuality. I love Lady Gaga and the performance of sexuality. The mysterious, the artistic and the slightly perverse. I'm interested in all that.