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I asked him why he was a priest, and he said if you have to work for anybody an absentee boss is best.
“What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine…”
― Notes on ‘Camp’
― Notes on ‘Camp’
“Kendi ailemin eski serveti dahil, her zenginliğin arkasında ya bir haksızlık, ya bir sömürü, ya bir hırsızlık olabileceği konusunda kuşkularım vardır hep.”
― Bir Dinozorun Anıları
― Bir Dinozorun Anıları
“Time liberates the work of art from moral relevance, delivering it over to the Camp sensibility . . . Another effect: time contracts the sphere of banality. (Banality is, strictly speaking, always a category of the contemporary.) What was banal can, with the passage of time, become fantastic.”
― Notes on ‘Camp’
― Notes on ‘Camp’
“Camp which knows itself to be Camp ('camping') is usually less satisfying.”
― Notes on ‘Camp’
― Notes on ‘Camp’
“Art Nouveau objects, typically, convert one thing into something else: the lighting fixtures in the form of flowering plants, the living room which is really a grotto. A remarkable example: the Paris Métro entrances designed by Hector Guimard in the late 1890s in the shape of cast-iron orchid stalks.”
― Notes on ‘Camp’
― Notes on ‘Camp’
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