Laura Huang
@laurah
Laura Huang
@laurah
cultures become ugly and petty because financial interest overrode eugenics in marriage—
Print created individualism and nationalism in the sixteenth century.
Roland Petit and Zizi Jeanmaire in ‘Carmen’, 1949
War and the fear of war have always been considered the main incentives to technological extension of our bodies.
the American Presidency has become very much more personal and monarchical than any European monarch ever could be.
It’s only because women lost all respect for the males of the time that there could be any pretext like feminism or “women’s suffrage” in the first place.
the life of the human animal collapsed to mere life, life for the sake of life, as it devolves to the yeast form aesthetically, morally, intellectually, physically. On the other side is the life of the immortal gods who live in pure mountain air, and the sign of this life, where energy is marshaled to the production of higher order, is the
... See more“Now that painting has gone up so many blind alleys,” Lagerfeld continues, “I feel that photography is the art that best expresses our age. I am afraid that painting is a finished form, like opera. Photography must be protected from becoming too ‘official.’ It must remain a living art.” Painting certainly is, in its more traditional forms,
... See morethe Judaizing tendency that promotes facility with words and number, but approaches mental deficiency and even retardation when it comes to anything visual. The Jewish hatred of matter, an ancient prejudice that precedes the Bible, and the hatred also for beauty that they share with other Semitic peoples—and many others besides—all of this comes
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