“Making a painting is like having sex for a month or something. Then I go through this period of elation at finishing the work. Then you drop off - you know, 'post-coital man is sad,' as the old saying goes.” KnowsMenSexSadnessPaintingMonthsPeriodsPostsFinishingHaving SexOld SayingElation Author:Tim Zuck
“The family you were raised in, the time period you were born in, and the part of the country you're in absolutely shape your view on sex, which shapes a huge part of anybody's personality.” CountrySexBornViewsHugePersonalityPeriodsShapesRaisedTime Periods Author:Lizzy Caplan
“Youth, then, once ballyhooed as the epicenter of fun, hot dogs, hot sex, and marvelous dope-smoking good times, is now defined as follows: that period before death, characterized by smooth skin and ill-formed ideas.” IdeasFunSexDogYouthPeriodsSkinsHotIllDefinedSmokingGood TimesSmoothMarvelousDopeHot DogBefore DeathSmooth Skin Book:How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe Source: How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe
“It is this that, finally, I will try to teach my sons about sex, after I've explained fertile periods and birth control and all the other mechanics that are important to understand but never really go to the heart of the matter: I believe I will say that when you sleep with someone you take off a lot more than your clothes.” TryingBelieveHeartImportantMatterFeelingsI BelieveSexSleepTeachSonBirthPeriodsClothesMy SonMechanicFertileBirth Control Book:Living Out Loud Source: Living Out Loud
“I was vegetarian, trying to eat from fast-food restaurants without meat. I didn't know how to eat properly and I was starving. I was adrenalized to the eyeballs from performing. I was afraid that I was sick with AIDS. We were playing five shows a week. I even went through a period of abstinence where I didn't drink and stopped having sex. Which is crazy. Maybe I'm answering too many questions at once here, but this is where my mind was at the age of 25.” KnowsTryingMindShowsAgeSexKnow HowFiveWeekCrazyPeriodsDrinkSickAidsPerformingMeatRestaurantsVegetarianStarvingFast FoodAbstinenceHaving SexEyeballsFast Food Restaurants Author:Michael Stipe
“In science we see progress. In art there is no progress. In art the questions have always been the same. From the beginning of time till now, we are always asking the same questions. There are very few. We are looking for God, we are asking why we die, we are contemplating sex and the beauty of nature. The only thing that changes is that, in each period of questioning, we speak with the language of our time.” ArtDiesSpeakLanguageSexProgressPeriodsAskingOur TimeQuestioningContemplatingNature BeautyAsking Why Author:Christian Boltanski
“I have really strong feelings about sex scenes in movies. I care a lot about sexuality and how it's depicted in mainstream media, period, but what I know is movies, and what I find is that they tend to be kind of one-note.” KnowsKindFeelingsCareStrongSexMediaPeriodsSceneNotesSexualityBe KindMainstreamI CareMainstream MediaStrong Feeling Author:Desiree Akhavan
“Ang [Lee] gave us a lot of books about cowboys who had been gay or stories about it and all that stuff. And I just talked to a lot of my friends - who [was] their first, particularly same-sex, first situation. That was fascinating to me - trying to learn what that was in a certain period of time. Certain age. The secrecy involved in it. All those things.” TryingFirstsBookStoriesAgeCertainSexStuffSituationInvolvedPeriodsGayMy FriendsFascinatingCowboySecrecy Author:Jake Gyllenhaal