Naked I came, and naked I leave the scene, And naked was my pastime in between.
Nude Quotes
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?
Nothing is so chaste as nudity. All beauty is sexless in the eyes of the artist at his work – the beauty of man, the beauty of woman, the heavenly beauty of the child, which is the sweetest and best of all.
What this country really needs is a Beltway orgy. Where every mottled pink body in Washington strips off its clothes and runs naked from Capitol Hill down the mall to be doused with Mazzola oil spiked with Ecstasy. We take pictures and every time some sanctimonious BS comes out of the front of their talking […]
