“ There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth. ”
- Francis Herbert Bradley- Copy
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“ I love to swim in the nude and roam around the house in the nude. You're just as free as a bird! ”
- Bette Page- Copy
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“ 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… ”
- Pablo Picasso- Copy
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“ Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism. ”
- John Updike- Copy
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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. ”
- Andy Garcia- Copy
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“ Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness. ”
- Antoine de Saint Exupéry- Copy
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“ I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ I was asked about doing a nude shoot for men's magazine GQ. I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard. ”
- Julie Walters- Copy
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“ We've been swimming at nude beaches and I love to go skinny dipping, but I'm sorry, sitting on top of a mountain, that's just, you're trying to show off or something. That's ridiculous. ”
- Andy Richter- Copy
- 2K
“ What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it. ”
- Sally Rand- Copy
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“ A large-boned unexceptional young woman. Yet as soon as she disrobed and took her place on the platform, she became not only a bare body but a splendid living design. She became a nude. ”
- Maureen Mullarkey- Copy
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“ Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course. ”
- John Hurt- Copy
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“ When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists. ”
- Stephen Fry- Copy
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“ I have absolutely no hang-ups about modeling nude. I think if the pictures are really tasteful and classy I think it's a beautiful thing. ”
- Lisa Boyle- Copy
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“ Already at 16, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms - one spiritual, the other earthly. ”
- Michelangelo- Copy
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“ We shift and bedeck and bedrape us, thou art noble and nude and antique. ”
- Algernon Charles Swinburne- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky. The glory of science is not in a truth more absolute than the truth of Bach or Tolstoy, but in the act of creation itself. The scientist's discoveries impose his own order on chaos, as the composer or painter imposes his; an order that always refers to limited aspects of reality, and is based on the observer's frame of reference, which differs from period to period as a Rembrant nude differs from a nude by Manet. ”
- Arthur Koestler- Copy
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