No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow – and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.
Nude Quotes
In 1879, Carroll’s (Lewis Carroll – Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) diaries show what Colin Ford describes as “a positive crescendo of activity” in photographing young girls naked. Frances Henderson was “in her favorite dress of nothing”; next day, little Leila Taylor “in jersey and bathing drawers”. Then Frances alone, “lying on a blanket, naked as usual”. […]
Naked I came, and naked I leave the scene, And naked was my pastime in between.
I come from a country where you don’t wear clothes most of the year. Nudity is the most natural state. I was born nude and I hope to be buried nude.
Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience. But my women are simple, honest creatures who are concerned with nothing beyond their physical occupations… it is as if you were looking through a keyhole.
How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up like a rare, rare fiddle?
They symbolize nothing. I paint them (nuides) because they are beautiful and desirable. I have something against the word “symbol” because it has something artificial.
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot grasp the fact that the human foot is more noble than the shoe and the human skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?
