Roland Barthes , “to lubricate man’s glance”

“A well drawn figure penetrates you of a completely foreign pleasure to the subject. Voluptuous or terrible, this figure owes its charm only to the arabesque which it cuts out in space. The members of a martyr whom one skins, the body of a pâmée nymph, if they are learnedly drawn, comprise a kind of pleasure which the subject does not enter for nothing ; if for you it is different, I will be forced to believe that you are a torturer or a libertine”. Baudelaire.

Bellmer “to follow all gently the contour of the small valleys, to taste the pleasure of the round-offs, to make pretty things”.

Roland Barthes ; “to lubricate man’s glance”

Salvador Dali “I declare that any new sexual attraction from women will come of the possible use of their spectral capacity and resources, that is to say from their possible dissociation, their carnal and luminous decompositions …Woman will become spectral by the disarticulation and deformation of their anatomy”.

Bataille : “the work of a violent discord of the organs” where, “the eyes are struck with what is impossible to see, flowing into fear and the laughter” ” “knowledge by setting in contact”.