There once was a sculptor called Phidias
Who had a distaste for the hideous.
So he sculpt Aphrodite
Without any nightie
Which shocked the ultra-fastidious. -Anon.
Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral. -Francis Bacon
Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress. -John Berger
Nakedness reveals itself.
Nudity is placed on display.
The nude is condemned to never
being naked.
Nudity is a form of dress. -John Berger
I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring. -Otto von Bismarck
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed. -William Blake
If God had meant us to walk around naked, he would never have invented the wicker chair. -Erma Bombeck
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth. -Francis H. Bradley
In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene. -Robert Bresson
Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys. -John Donne
They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that. -Andy Garcia
Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud. -Milan Kundera
To see you naked is to recall the Earth. -Federico Garcia Lorca
The laws against public nudity make no sense. The idea that Jerry Falwell can go topless while Cindy Crawford cannot is an absolute affront to logic, common sense and the 5000 year human struggle for aesthetic taste. -Peter McWilliams
The girl with dark hair was coming towards them across the field. With what seemed a single movement she tore off her clothes and flung them disdainfully aside. Her body was white and smooth, but it aroused no desire in him, indeed he barely looked at it. What overwhelmed him in that instant was admiration for the gesture with which she had thrown her clothes aside. With its grace and carelessness it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though Big Brother and the Party and the Thought Police could all be swept into nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm. -George Orwell
1984, Pt 1 ch 3
You know, it's just like being a peddler. You want two breasts? Well, here you are -- two breasts. We must see to it that the man looking at the picture has at hand everything he needs to paint a nude. If you really give him everything he needs -- and the best -- he'll put everything where it belongs, with his own eyes. Each person will make for himself the kind of nude he wants, with the nude that I will have made for him. -Pablo Picasso
I wouldn't do nudity in films. To act with my clothes on is a performance. To act with my clothes off is a documentary. -Julia Roberts
I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do today. -Will Rogers
Now that nude-beach season is in full, um, swing, taking things off is once again a public matter. It comes with the additional difficulty of hot sand under one's feet and the unavoidable, inescapable truth that gravity always wins. -Elizabeth Rosner
Notes on Nude-Beach Season, "Los Angeles Times", August 12, 2006
Twenty-five years ago, while an undergraduate at Stanford, I got a job on campus as a lifeguard, deepening a love of swimming and water that has lasted throughout my life. I took the duties seriously and studied the swimmers with professional vigilance, relieved at the end of each day that no emergency rescue had been required. But the greatest challenge of the job was standing poolside in a bathing suit with my body on display.
Work began in the locker room, where I changed into my Speedo and surveyed my reflection, assessing what would be on view for the next few hours. I was plagued by self-criticism. I imagined the swimmers judging my shape, until I made myself remember that I was there to guard their lives, not their fantasies. Later I performed my variation of the same ablutions everyone else did, showering and hair washing, the application of lotion and makeup -- preparations for re-entering the other world of walking upright on solid land. -Elizabeth Rosner, "The New York Times Sunday Magazine", May 28, 2006
But for me, being naked out of doors and in the water is one of the best ways I have ever found to restore my sense of blissful innocence. It takes me back to that place of my almost forgotten childhood, where I got to run around undressed without anyone telling me I had to cover up or be embarrassed. -Elizabeth Rosner
Notes on Nude-Beach Season, "Los Angeles Times", August 12, 2006
To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are everything, since it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of self-reproach, there can assuredly be no shame. -Captain J. G. Stedman
Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice. -Gloria Steinem
Pornography tells lies about women. But pornography tells the truth about men. -John Stoltenberg
We shift and bedeck and bedrape us, thou art noble and nude and antique. -Algernon Charles Swinburne
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