Vivienne Westwood Quotes

Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.

I am sensual and very physical. I'm very erotic. But my sexuality exists on a sort of a fantasy level.

I can get incredibly erotic about blotting paper.

You've made love to my mind, now you gotta take me from behind.

Any closer would unravel her mystery, the very thing which made her so truly beautiful...It was her mystery that he adored. He was in love with everything that he did not know about her... No real sexual encounter could ever match the secret one that he could nurture in his imagination... No living flesh could ever be the erotic equal of flesh kept private, untouchable and unknowable

Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

And so I am become a knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows

so full of shapes is fancy

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

When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams.

Where beams of imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away.

But she had long ago learned that when she wandered into the realm of fancy she must go alone. The way to it was by an enchanted path where not even her dearest might follow her.

I basically took something that was extremely erotic and very intentional, and I reduced it to a simple kiss. I got a lot of criticism for that.

Eroticism is mystique; that is, the aura of emotion and imagination around sex. It cannot be 'fixed' by codes of social or moral convenience, whether from the political left or right. For nature's fascism is greater than that of any society. There is a daemonic instability in sexual relations that we may have to accept.

We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way.

Ultimately, I want to make everyone horny.

I was never much of a reader when I was a boy. Books bored me. I liked action. But I spent a lot of time thinking about things. I'd imagine all kinds of situations and how I would handle them.

One of the great things about cartoons is that they're not real - you're not watching real people and it engages your imagination. One of the cornerstones of America is that we are creative thinkers. We're innovators.

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.

Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.

I wish it was that easy to get turned on for me - at this point, I need a bottle of Belevere and a fighterjet.

They give us access to another world, they give us access to dreams. It's our way of living in a different realm for a short period of time - and how beautiful is that?

It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.

The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.