20 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.
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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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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
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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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In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.
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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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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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Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.
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To see you naked is to recall the Earth.
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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. Each person will make for himself the kind of nude he wants, with the nude that I will have made for him.
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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.
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I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do today.
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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.
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Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice.
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Pornography tells lies about women. But pornography tells the truth about men.
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We shift and bedeck and bedrape us, thou art noble and nude and antique.
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Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.
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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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