Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
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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.
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When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity.
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I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.
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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
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A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist--nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix himself up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.
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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
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In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.
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If God had meant us to walk around naked, he would never have invented the wicker chair.
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Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
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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.
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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.
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They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that.
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Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.
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