Michael Ondaatje Quotes

It's so easy to pick up a camera, white balance, and shoot people having sex, but I don't think there's anything very interesting about it. You might get off, but that's it.

She undressed slowly, dreamily, and when she was naked, she selected a bright red negligee to wear so that the blood would not show.

A naked dog for a naked lady.

For me a nude photograph should be erotic, not devoid of emotion. The body is a sensual thing, sensuality being one of its most beautiful and meaningful qualities.

Sexuality and sensuality exists in every women, along with innocence, and I have represented only those through my characters.

Normal People' is an incredibly intimate show, there are a lot of love scenes in it and it's beautifully done.

I can be sweet-looking innocent girl, but I may have a sensual side to me, which I would love to explore.

I think I feel most sexy when I have a matching lingerie set underneath what I'm wearing. I know what's going on and no one else does.

Daughters of the attitude that produced them, certain women will not appeal to us without the double bed in which we find peace by their side, while others, to be caressed with a more secret intention, require leaves blown by the wind, water rippling in the dark, things as light and fleeting as they are.

She crawled on top of him, naked and warm and soft, smelling like a miracle that had saved him from a lifetime of aloneness.

All the black leather she needs is the E-Z boy recliner where her love is parked with one of his hands wrapped around a remote, the other, a bottle of beer. She's right. It's kinky. The way he doesn't look away from the TV, as her head bobs in his lap like a fisherman's float on a nature program, hectic with the pace his breath sets. His crotch swells under her mouth's prowess. He's such a sweetheart he waits until the commercials to come.

I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked.

The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair.

Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things.

Over your breasts of motionless current, over your legs of firmness and water, over the permanence and the pride of your naked hair I want to be, my love, now that the tears are thrown into the raucous baskets where they accumulate, I want to be, my love, alone with a syllable of mangled silver, alone with a tip of your breast of snow.

The ball is like a woman, she loves to be caressed.

I am not used to doing naked shoots but when you trust the photographer and the crew, you know it won't be vulgar.

And taking her friend’s hand, she put it on her breast, on that firm round covering of a woman’s heart which the male often finds so satisfying that he makes no attempt to find what lies beneath it.

Since we're keeping it primal, you smell good," he observed. "It's called a shower...," I began automatically, then trailed off. My memory snagged, taken aback by a compelling and forceful sense of undue familiarity. "Soap, shampoo, hot water," I added, almost as an afterthought. "Naked. I know the drill," Jev said, something unreadeble passing over his eyes.

In the time it takes for her to walk from the bathhouse at the seawall of Fortune's Rocks, where she has left her boots and has discreetly pulled off her stockings, to the waterline along which the sea continually licks the pink and silver sand, she learns about desire.

It's not the photographer who makes the picture, but the person being photographed.

What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic.

To be naked or even making love in a scene to me is very important if this is a movie about a couple or sensuality. It's a sort of moralism to think that this shouldn't be seen in the film.

Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.

These days any self-respecting exhibition of nude photos has to have pornographically explicit images to prove that they are works of art.