"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


"Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress." - John Berger


"I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring." - Otto Von Bismarck


"Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed." - William Blake


"There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth." - Francis H. Bradley


"In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene." - Robert Bresson


"Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys." - John Donne


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


"Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud." - Milan Kundera


"To see you naked is to recall the Earth." - Federico Garcia Lorca


"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." - Pablo Picasso


"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." - Julia Roberts


"I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do today." - Will Rogers


"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." - Captain J. G. Stedman


"Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice." - Gloria Steinem


"Pornography tells lies about women. But pornography tells the truth about men." - John Stoltenberg


"We shift and bedeck and bedrape us, thou art noble and nude and antique." - A. C. Swinburne


"Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism." - John Updike


"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


"When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity." - Mae West