Quotes of Nudity - somelinesforyou

“ There are people who see nudity in the crotch of every tree. ”

- Ashley Montagu

“ Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress. ”

- John Berger

“ Nudity is the uniform of the other side… nudity is a shroud. ”

- Milan Kundera

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

- Mae West

“ I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally… To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary. ”

- Julia Roberts

“ 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. ”

- Shelley Winters

“ To see you naked is to recall the Earth. ”

- Federico Garcia Lorca

“ 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

“ Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys. ”

- John Donne

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

- Otto Von Bismarck

“ 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

“ The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. ”

- Bible

“ The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship. ”

- George F. Kennan

“ And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come. ”

- Bible

“ I held my breath, for to me there is nothing more awe-inspiring than when a man discovers to you the nakedness of his soul. ”

- W. Somerset Maugham

“ Simplicity should not be identified with bareness. ”

- Felix Adler

“ My issue in the past with nudity was that these scenes had been written solely for box office draw. ”

- Neve Campbell

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

- Algernon Charles Swinburne

“ They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that. ”

- Andy Garcia

“ I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do today. ”

- Will Rogers

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

- John Updike

“ Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ I was never one who was squeamish about nudity. I don't believe in being promiscuous about it, but several times I thought of going to a nudist colony. ”

- Bette Page

“ There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth. ”

- Francis Herbert Bradley

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

- John Stoltenberg

“ Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice. ”

- Gloria Steinem

“ There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. ”

- Agnes Repplier

“ In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene. ”

- Robert Bresson

“ One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness. ”

- Harold Pinter

“ 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
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