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 mens 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
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 theres 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
I wouldnt 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 ones feet and the unavoidable, inescapable truth that gravity always wins. – Elizabeth Rosner
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
We shift and bedeck and bedrape us, thou art noble and nude and antique. – Algernon Charles Swinburne
