For the Love of Beauty (2006)

Eroticism can either ascend to the realm of love and beauty, or fester in a narcissistic aestheticism of power and brutality.

[ sourceArthur Pontynen. For the Love of Beauty (Transaction Publishers, 2006), p 308 ]

Eroticism is historically associated not merely with a willful and subjectivist sensuality, but rather with the self-conscious desire of one person to physically, emotionally, and spiritually connect with another self-conscious person.

[ sourceArthur Pontynen. For the Love of Beauty (Transaction Publishers, 2006), p 308 ]