I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on my canvas live and quiver.
Nude Quotes
Man’s naked form… belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.
I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S. Grant in full military regalia.
I think nudity on the stage is disgusting, shameful and unpatriotic. But if I were twenty-two with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive, religious experience.
The Princess Borghese, Bonaparte’s sister, who was no saint, sat to (the artist Antonio) Canova as a reclining Venus, and being asked if she did not feel a little uncomfortable, replied, “No. There was a fire in the room.”
The women suffer’d every part to be examined without the least appearance of bashfulness, and the men absolutely play with their Penis as a child would with any bauble or a man twirl about the key of his watch. (of Aborigines)
I’m not against half naked girls – not as often as I’d like to be.
Nudists are fond of saying that when you come right down to it everyone is alike, and, again, that when you come right down to it everyone is different.
Complete nudity in itself is not erotic. It becomes so only when preceded by or contrasted to a state of dress. In this limited context then, all clothes become somewhat immoral, if we define immorality as inciting sexual interest. Habitual nakedness may indeed be capable of elevating man to a higher mental plane.
I object to all partly clothed figures, altogether, as being unpleasantly suggestive of impropriety… (I would ) have none but wholly clothed, or wholly nude – which, to my mind are not improper at all.
