We shift and bedeck and bedrape us, thou art noble and nude and antique. – Algernon Charles Swinburne
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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
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.
So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order. – Rowan D. Williams
