There is no woman so naked as one you can see to be naked underneath her clothes.
Nude Quotes
The problem with painting a nude… is that it deepens the transaction. You can scrap a painting of someone’s face and it imperils the sitter’s self-esteem less than scrapping a painting of the whole naked body.
When you see a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your body and less of your raiment.
Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing.
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.
