Ways of Seeing

I’m an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it. I free myself for today and forever from human immobility. I’m in constant movement. I approach and pull away from objects. I creep under them. I move alongside a running horse’s mouth. I fall and rise with the falling and rising bodies. This is I, the machine, manoeuvring in the chaotic movements, recording one movement after another in the most complex combinations.
Freed from the boundaries of time and space, I co-ordinate any and all points of the universe, wherever I want them to be. My way leads towards the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus I explain in a new way the world unknown to you.*

Women are there to feed an appetite, not to have any of their own.

This picture is made to appeal to his sexuality. It has nothing to do with her sexuality.

The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.

A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude.

To be naked is to be oneself.
To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself.

This nakedness is not, however, an expression of her own feelings; it is a sign of her submission to the owner’s feelings or demands.

It was to make the woman connive in treating herself as, first and foremost, a sight.

thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for your own pleasure.

She is not naked as she is.
She is naked as the spectator sees her.