quotations about nudity
You'll never catch a nudist with his pants down.
DAVID LETTERMAN
attributed, The Little Book of Humorous Quotes
I think onstage 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
attributed, The Audience Book of Theater Quotations
The experience of nudity does not refer to a hidden existent but to that which does not belong to the register of possible, present existents: Erotic profanation is a nocturnal event. What manifests in the erotic night is nothing less than that which, because it remains secret, beyond any presence, real or possible, unfolds itself in the mode of that which is not yet. Erotic nudity uncovers the clandestine, which refuses to give itself, and it is in this way that nudity is profanation, that is, the paradoxical coincidence of the hidden and the discovered, of the secret that remains hidden despite being discovered.
RAOUL MOATI
Levinas and the Night of Being: A Guide to Totality and Infinity
Nudity is the costume of lovers and corpses.
MASON COOLEY
City Aphorisms
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
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
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
Poems and Paragraphs