quotations about nudity
Now the man and his wife were both naked, but they felt no shame.
BIBLE
Genesis 2:25
In red, you feel naked even when you are dressed.
CHLOE THURLOW
The Secret Life of Girls
It bothers me that in this society, it's OK seeing a guy blow another's head off, but a child seeing Janet Jackson's boob at the Super Bowl is the worst thing that could happen. It's not the end of the world! It's just a breast!
CHARLIZE THERON
Glamour Magazine, July 2008
In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.
ROBERT BRESSON
Notes on the Cinematographer
To see you naked is to recall the Earth.
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA
Casida de la Mujer Tendida
If people were meant to run around naked, they wouldn't have been born wearing clothes.
REVEREND LOVESHADE
Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht
I do not want to live with a soul without a body. Nudity is the reflection of innocence.
KAMALA SURAYYA
Sify News & Info, January 1, 2003
Once we are aware that our nudity makes us objects of desire, we become naked.
CHLOE THURLOW
Katie in Love
The existence in so many places of the tendency toward nudity, is not a testimony to the fallenness of man. It is rather a testimony of the original condition of man. What was normal and "very good" for man in his original state, still exists as a desire in his soul. The inner desire to be naked and unashamed is a longing to get back to our original perfection.
PHILO THELOS
Divine Sex: Liberating Sex from Religious Tradition
My parents were free about nudity, and we are too. I'd like our children to feel unashamed of whatever shape they are. People should worry about other things.
HEIDI KLUM
InStyle, September 2007
Full nakedness! All joys are due to thee;
As souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be
To taste whole joys.
JOHN DONNE
To His Mistress Going to Bed
When I was growing up, in our house nudity was defined as the period of time between the shower and your towel.
AMY COHEN
The Late Bloomer's Revolution
Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display.... The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
JOHN BERGER
Ways of Seeing
Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.
JOHN UPDIKE
On the Vineyard
I mean seriously: they're just breasts. Every second person has them.
RICHARD CURTIS
Notting Hill
We alternately think of nudity as a perversion and a state of innocence. Why is our response so contradictory and why is nudity treated so differently in different contexts?
RUTH BARCAN
Nudity: A Cultural Anatomy
Female nudity is not just about sexualization, it's about maintaining social hierarchies, like those of race and class. Non-idealized female bodies used autonomously undermine a continuous narrative about body-based sex and race differences. When our cultural production is singularly focused on hyper-gendered, racialized and sexualized representations of nudity, it is easier to maintain racist and sexist ideas -- and nude female bodies outside socially approved, sexualized contexts challenge those.
SORAYA CHEMALY
"Why Female Nudity Isn't Obscene, But Is Threatening to a Sexist Status Quo", Huffington Post, June 22, 2014
Nudity is the uniform of the other side ... nudity is a shroud.
MILAN KUNDERA
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame or disgust about the human body. If parents are very secretive about their bodies and go to great lengths to prevent their children from ever seeing a buttock or breast, children will wonder what is so unusual, and even alarming, about human nudity.
LEE SALK
McCall's, June 1976
There's something therapeutic about nudity ... Take away the Gucci or Levi's and we're all the same.
KEVIN BACON
Style Magazine, 1999