quotations about nudity
You'll never catch a nudist with his pants down.
DAVID LETTERMAN
attributed, The Little Book of Humorous Quotes
What nudity therefore reveals is its own impudence; what is shown in it is not so much what is secret, as the betrayal of the secret, which is to say profanation itself.
RAOUL MOATI
Levinas and the Night of Being: A Guide to Totality and Infinity
Why is exposing the world to non-sexualized female nudity important? The real question about female nudity isn't why anyone would want to show or see women's breasts if they're not titillating. The real question is about who has the right to say what they're for, where and when they can be seen and by whom. That's about power.
SORAYA CHEMALY
"Why Female Nudity Isn't Obscene, But Is Threatening to a Sexist Status Quo", Huffington Post, June 22, 2014
Art can never exist without Naked beauty display'd.
WILLIAM BLAKE
on etching of the Laocoön
This was truly to be a radical milestone: the world's first-ever marathon nude psychotherapy session for criminal psychopaths.
JON RONSON
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
In the contemplation of nudes, we congratulate ourselves upon the beauty of which human beings are capable. They reassure us about ourselves, about Being. We are a little lower than the angels, true, but notice that we can get along without that suspect radiance, equal parts paint and literature, on which the angels lean so heavily. The human body is, or can be, a sufficiency.
DONALD BARTHELME
"Nudes: An Introduction to Exquisite Creatures"
Halfway measures, such as loincloths or fig leaves, remain more titillating than complete nudity.
PAUL LUDWIG
Eros and Polis
Many displayed in their nudity traces of their past: scars of knife thrusts in the belly, starbursts of guns hot wounds, ridges of the razor cuts of love, Caesarean sections sewn up by butchers. Some of them had their young children with them during the day, those unfortunate fruits of youthful defiance or carelessness, and they took off their children's clothes as soon as they were brought in so they would not feel different in that paradise of nudity.
GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
Love in the Time of Cholera
Sometimes we sit and wonder in our idle way what in the mischief Eve did when the cold weather came.
ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES
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