Sensory Stimulation Quotes

What is erotic? The acrobatic play of the imagination. The sea of memories in which we bathe. The way we caress and worship things with our eyes. Our willingness to be stirred by the sight of the voluptuous. What is erotic is our passion for the liveliness of life.

You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act—that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you come to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let every one see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food?

I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul.

Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.

When I've heard a piece of music or seen a painting that moves me, it gives me something.

I, who cannot see, find hundreds of things to interest me through mere touch. I feel the delicate symmetry of a leaf. I pass my hands lovingly about the smooth skin of a silver birch, or the rough shaggy bark of a pine.

When eyes were first developed in animals, suddenly animal life becomes proactive.

First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect.

Music is an experience, not a science.

Live music is the most primal form of energy release you can share with other people besides having sex or taking drugs.

Erogenous zones are either everywhere or nowhere.

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

People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose.

Some people might think that sex is the highest experience you can have. I tend to think that music is.

What's the fundamental problem that VR solves better than anything? To me it's straightforward. It's story. VR tells stories better than any medium.

Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.

The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.

When something is dramatized, it provokes a much more emotive response than just hearing a story on the news.

The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.

Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference: beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend. If there are people who are indifferent to beauty, then it is surely because they do not perceive it.

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

When she closed her eyes she felt he had many hands, which touched her everywhere, and many mouths, which passed so swiftly over her, and with a wolflike sharpness, his teeth sank into her fleshiest parts. Naked now, he lay his full length over her. She enjoyed his weight on her, enjoyed being crushed under his body. She wanted him soldered to her, from mouth to feet. Shivers passed through her body.

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?

This generation... they have a different attitude. Instead of sitting and watching something, they want to be a part of it - they're very hedonistic and sensual.