Quotes about nudity

Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's 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

I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.

— Otto Von Bismarck

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

— William Blake

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 there's 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

You know, it's just like being a peddler. You want two breasts? Well, here you are -- two breasts. We must see to it that the man looking at the picture has at hand everything he needs to paint a nude. If you really give him everything he needs -- and the best -- he'll put everything where it belongs, with his own eyes. Each person will make for himself the kind of nude he wants, with the nude that I will have made for him.

— Pablo Picasso

I wouldn't 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

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

Pornography tells lies about women. But pornography tells the truth about men.

— John Stoltenberg

We shift and bedeck and bedrape us, thou art noble and nude and antique.

— A. C. Swinburne

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.

— John Updike

My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let em wonder. I never believed in giving them too much of me.

— Mae West

When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity.

— Mae West

God and I were nude.

— Vanna Bonta