Erotics Quotes

“I am not interested in a hermeneutics, or an erotics, or a metaphorics, of my anus. I am interested in ass-fucking. I am interested in the fact that the clitoris, disguised as a discrete button, sweeps over the entire area like a manta ray, impossible to tell where its eight thousand nerves begin and end. I am interested in the fact that the human anus is one of the most innervated parts of the body,”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

“In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

“True photographs tend to remain on the streets, the story almost about to enter the edge of the frame of the snapshot or the shutter closing a moment too late, the story having just abandoned the frame.”
― Doug Rice, An Erotics of Seeing: The force of photography as philosophy's broken sentence

“Deras kärlek var som lek, utan brådska, utan desperation och i stort sett utan riktning. Vad de försökte var att surfa så länge som möjligt på den heta yta de hade under sig.”
― Peter Høeg, The Woman and the Ape

“We are playing with desires that disappear.”
― Doug Rice, An Erotics of Seeing: The force of photography as philosophy's broken sentence