“With most people, not describable as artists, all the finer part of their vitality goes into sex. They become third-rate poets during their courtship. All their instincts of drama come out freshly with their wives. The artist is he in whom this emotionality normally absorbed by sex is so strong that it claims a newer and more exclusive field of deployment. Its first creation is the Artist himself, a new sort of person; the creative man.” PeopleMenFirstsPersonsArtistStrongSexCreativeWifeCreationFieldsPoetDramaThirdsClaimsInstinctRateVitalityExclusiveCourtshipDeployment Author:Wyndham Lewis
“It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists.” GivingWellsBodyArtistSexEasyKnownFineModelsDressesProportionWell KnownStatues Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“An occupation that has no basis in sex-determined gifts can now recruit its ranks from twice as many potential artists.” ArtistSexBasesEqualityDeterminedOccupationRecruit Book:Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies Source: Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies
“There is a subject - there is a research that says a man thinks about sex every 12 seconds. And so when an artist expresses something that's sexual in music it is a reflection of our reality. If we want that reality changed, then we have to do things that affect the core.” IfsThinkingMenWantRealityArtistSexSubjectsChangedResearchReflectionCoreSeconds Author:Russell Simmons