Pinup Quotes

• Painters and sculptors under the Nazis often depicted the nude, but they were forbidden to show any bodily imperfections. Their nudes look like pictures in physique magazines: pinups which are both sanctimoniously asexual and (in a technical sense) pornographic, for they have the perfection of a fantasy.

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  Susan Sontag

  Perfection   Looks   Magazines  

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.

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  Esther Williams

  Sports   Space   Champion  

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• I love photo shoots where I can be like a pinup, not myself. Where I can be feminine, glamorous, dark not like in real life. I hate it when you go in and they want you to be 'natural,' to be yourself. I just hate it. I love having fun. When they ask you to smile, I hate it. Of course I smile in my real life, but to do it on cue, that's not spontaneous. I'd rather do something that's like a little movie, like a little story, rather than just me, I feel naked.

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  Eva Green

  Being Yourself   Fun   Hate  

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Beauty ensnares hearts, captures minds, and stirs up emotional wildfires. From Plato to pinups, images of human beauty have catered to a limitless desire to see and imagine an ideal human form.

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  Nancy Etcoff

  Beauty   Plato   Heart  

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• I wanted to do what Marilyn Monroe did (during the Korean War), when she went and just set up a stage and did a concert for the troops all by herself. It's so amazing seeing that one woman just going somewhere, this beautiful sex kitten, who's basically a pinup, which is what I've always aspired to be.

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  Lindsay Lohan

  Beautiful   Sex   War  

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• I did a dozen superhero pinups. I signed them "Kirby/Royer" because it was Kirby's drawing. I didn't think I was committing some sort of sin.

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  Mike Royer

  Thinking   Drawing   Superhero  

  Source: comicsbulletin.com

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• My hope is that the work is in some way counter-pinup. A pinup asks you to suspend interest in who the person is and occupy yourself entirely with looking at the body and fantasizing about what you could do with that body, completely ignoring how the person might feel about it.

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  Jock Sturges

  Occupy Yourself   Body   Might  

  "Light & Shadows". Interview with David Steinberg, www.laweekly.com. March 4, 1998.

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• Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.

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  Janis Joplin

  Girl   Hippie   Might  

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• Martin Sheen is my pinup! And Allison Janney, oh my God. They're brilliant actors.

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  Sophie Thompson

  Actors   Brilliant   Pinup  

  "Sophie Thompson: 'I haven't played Hedda Gabler yet, but maybe if I did I'd find the funny bits'". Interview with Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2011.

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