Bullshit! (reply to Playboy interviewer who commented “You have been accused of vulgarity”)
Obscenity Quotes
The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things – bad language and whatever – it’s all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition… There’s an idea that the human body is somehow evil and bad and there are parts of it that are especially evil […]
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
Since then I’ve come to understand that photography certainly and perhaps every form of art is sexual activity; the photographer wants to capture the reality whose image has enthralled him and to be captured by it. Moreover, there is no more lovely subject in the world than the human body, especially the body of a […]
Is it a book (Lady Chatterley’s Lover) you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?
Of all the strange crimes that humanity has legislated out of nothing, blasphemy is the most amazing – with obscenity and indecent exposure fighting it out for second and third place.
I do have a cause though. It is obscenity. I’m for it. Unfortunately the civil liberties types who are fighting this issue have to fight it owing to the nature of the laws as a matter of freedom of speech and stifling of free expression and so on but we no what’s really involved: dirty […]
