Quotes About Voyeurism

#1. I was not exploiting any real individual's story in writing ROOM, of course I was aware that my novel, by commenting on such situations, would run the risk of falling into those traps of voyeurism, sensationalism and sentimentality.

Emma Donoghue

#2. Sexual deviance, sadism, masochism, homosexuality, coprophagy, coprolalia, voyeurism - the list was endless.

Paulo Coelho

#3. Having been in the newspaper business for a long, long time, I often wonder, Why do we actually need to know about something like a bus crash in Bangladesh that has no effect on us at all? That can be nothing other than voyeurism.

Simon Winchester

#4. All reality TV shows are a triumph of voyeurism. They choose contestants who are ill-suited and slightly freakish.

Terry Wogan

#5. All unknowns, at first, at least, to me, until I, like Columbus, "discovered" them. Is voyeurism a form of imperialism?

Ann Rower

#6. For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.

Halsey

#7. Pornography is the quadraphonics of sex. It adds a third and fourth track to the sexual act. It is the hallucination of detail that rules. Science has already habituated us to this microscopics, this excess of the real in its microscopic detail, this voyeurism of exactitude.

Jean Baudrillard

#8. Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.

Andy Warhol

#9. Twitter is the marriage of full-tilt narcissism and full-tilt voyeurism that has finally collided in 140 words.

Adam Goldberg

#10. Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet ... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism, to terror, envy and nostalgia, and only a little to the critical understanding of the social world.

Allan Sekula

#11. There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you.

Claire Danes

#12. The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.

Halsey

#13. Humans like to look. I think that voyeurism and exploitation are often used in the same sentence. But, in my opinion, voyeurism is a beautiful and delightful thing. There is nothing more intimate than really looking at someone.

Laurel Nakadate

#14. I think reality TV is so popular because it makes everyone in the country feel like, 'Hey, I can be on TV. I can be a star overnight.' I think America also has a little voyeurism in their hearts.

Shanna Moakler

#15. There was something not quite right about her eagerness, an eerie kind of voyeurism in her need for bad news.

Kim Edwards

#16. Photography is a very lonely medium. There's a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that's why I'm a photographer.

Alec Soth

#17. The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other people's humiliation, pain, weakness, and betrayal.

Chris Hedges

#18. I studied a truckload of true crime, praying for illumination, but most true crime relies on luridness and voyeurism for effect.

Poe Ballantine

#19. What they call philosophy I call literature; what they call literature I call journalism; what they call journalism I call gossip; and what they call gossip I call (generously) voyeurism.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#20. I suspect, more than voyeurism, that it has something to do with control. Control is a food that Nathan seems to feed on, devouring it with a vulgarity that clashes with his smooth exterior.

Alessandra Torre

#21. It was a miraculous thing to be able to watch the person you love undetected,

Ann Patchett

#22. Prostitution is illegal in many places, but porn is not. But what is porn if not sex for money, caught on camera? What the law actually prohibits then is having paid sex in private and not allowing anyone to watch.

Merlyn Gabriel Miller

#23. I want to spy on all sorts of places, and the box is a portable hole that occurred to me under the circumstances, it being impossible to punch holes throughout the world.

Kobo Abe

#24. It seems that the appetite for pictures showing bodies in pain is as keen, almost, as the desire for ones that show bodies naked. For many centuries, in Christian art, depictions of hell offered both of these elemental satisfactions.

Sontag, Susan

#25. Most men don't mind if another woman watches. It's the women who are watching who don't want to be seen.

John Irving

#26. There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?

William S. Burroughs

#27. Satan's warming me a throne, that's how long [I've been watching you]. Not a chair, not a seat at the bar. The big guy's got a throne with my name on it.

Sarah Winter

#28. I watched you undress. Shame on you!

Ljupka Cvetanova

#29. There is the satisfaction of being able to look at the image without flinching. There is the pleasure of flinching.

Sontag, Susan

#30. Just don't stare at my ass, Landemere," he added.
"I wasn't staring at your ass," Arranulf, who had been staring at his ass, said.

Andrew Ashling

#31. They never saw him drawing pictures of them naked at their antics in his notebook.

Virginia Woolf

#32. Take down your baby bump photos from Facebook, take down pictures of your kids too. It is your job to protect your children and not parade them around like little circus freaks or glorified mini-you's.

Brandon Kelly

#33. Personally I believe sometimes ugly things happen to good people and sometimes good people do awful things.

Scott Parker

#34. Every Artist's Decision; the line between selling, and selling out

Branch Isole