Nude Quotes - page 3

Two pictures painted in the year 1907 can conveniently be taken as the starting point of twentieth-century art. They are Matisse's Blue Nude and Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon; and both these cardinal, revolutionary pictures represent the nude. The reason is that the revolt of twentieth-century painters was not against academicism: that had been achieved by the impressionists. It was a revolt against the doctrine, with which the impressionists implicitly agreed, that the painter should be no more than a sensitive and well-informed camera. And the very elements of symbolism and abstraction that made the nude an unsuitable subject for the impressionists commended it to their successors. When art was once more concerned with concepts rather than sensations, the nude was the first concept that came to mind. (Kenneth Clark)
I don't know why I'm here. Everything before our eyes is ridiculous. The light is wrong, the shadows are wrong. When I enter in the studio I feel like I am entering a tomb [in the studio of their common art-teacher Thoman Couture ]. I know we can't make a model undress in the street. But there are fields, and at least in the summer we could do studies of the nude in the country, since the nude appears to be the first and the last word in art. View quote
Édouard Manet
God and I were nude. View quote
Vanna Bonta
Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience; but these women of mine are honest, simple folk, unconcerned by any other interests than those involved in their physical condition. Here is another; she is washing her feet. It is as if you looked through a key-hole. View quote
Edgar Degas
Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing to wear but clothes To keep one from going nude. View quote
Benjamin Franklin King, Jr.
If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination. View quote
Hedy Lamarr
This is a work which ought to be in every library in Canada; perhaps, after twenty-five years or so, it might silence the recurrent hubbub about nude paintings which is a feature of our national life. Yes, they are erotic. Yes, madam, the painters are often naughty men, and the models are sometimes bad girls. But there are elements involved in the painting of the nude which draw upon what is highest in art and express what is highest in mankind. Now, may we please look at the pictures? View quote
Robertson Davies
"Nude" is about an relationship I was in during that period and there is a joyful beginning and creepy end ... yeah life can be cruel, but god dammit how I love to write when my life is miserable. View quote
Jaani Peuhu
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation. View quote
Joseph Joubert
A woman materialises behind Prospero -- leaning lightly on the back of his chair -- she is alternately a Titianesque nude and then the Vesalius figure -- flayed ... she leans lightly over and kisses Prospero on the cheek. The kiss leaves a blood-red mark on his withered cheek. Prospero shivers. View quote
Peter Greenaway
In Antwerp I did not even know what the Impressionists were, now I have seen them and though not being one of the club, yet I have much admired certain Impressionist pictures – Degas, nude figure – Claude Monet, landscape. And now for what regards what I myself have been doing, I have lacked money for paying models, else I had entirely given myself to figure painting but I have made a series of colour studies in painting simply flowers, red poppies, blue corn flowers and myosotys. White and rose roses, yellow chrysantemums – seeking oppositions of blue with orange, red and green, yellow and violet, seeking THE BROKEN AND NEUTRAL TONES to harmonise brutal extremes. Trying to render intense COLOUR and not a grey harmony. (Vincent van Gogh)
the idea of movement.... just transferred from the Nude [ Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 - Duchamp painted this in 1912] into a bicycle wheel [ Bicycle wheel, his early ready-made from 1916-17]. View quote
Marcel Duchamp
I think you just have to be comfortable in your skin. But, I'm a nudist in any case. I've never had a problem with my body and I don't really care what people think, so I have bottoms on and pretty much go topless, or also when we shoot - we did a lot of nude pictures today, too - it doesn't bother me in the slightest. View quote
Heidi Klum
[In America] people are a little bit more scared to show their bodies. I grew up different. Nudity was a common thing. We went camping on nude beaches in Italy. When my parents were still sleeping, I'd just go outside and run to the beach without anything on. View quote
Heidi Klum
I will not pose nude because this all withered. View quote
Hebe Camargo
Your lean jaws grin with. Lash Your itch and quailing, nude greed of the flesh. View quote
James Joyce
If you wish to thoroughly accustom yourself to correct and good positions for your fingers, fasten a frame or a loom divided into squares by threads between your eye and the nude figure which you are representing, and then make the same squares upon the paper where you wish to draw the said nude but very faintly. You should then put a pellet of wax on a part of the network to serve as a mark which as you look at your model should always cover the pit of the throat, or if he should have turned his back make it cover one of the vertebrae of the neck. ...The squares you draw may be as much smaller than those of the network in proportion as you wish your figure to be less than life size... View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
You're about to experience chaos. [before farting in a police officer's face, while being photographed nude after his arrest]. View quote
Hans Reiser
Romans disapproved of Greek sports because the athletes competed nude. That was shocking. On the other hand, people dripping with blood and dying for entertainment was fine. This is strangely similar to the moral standards of today's commercial television and family movies. View quote
John Ralston Saul
No nude scenes. No sex-symbol parts. I want people to recognize me for my work, not just for being pretty. View quote
Robin Wright
It's a first for me. It's my first nude scene. (Danny DeVito)
I love to swim in the nude and roam around the house in the nude. You're just as free as a bird! View quote
Bettie Page
I was literally waiting till I turned 18 so I could do that [nude posing] with PETA. It's something I was passionate about at a young age. I was educating my mom and sister, and encouraging as many people as possible not to eat meat and the reasons behind it. That poster is something I'm really proud I did to raise awareness for a cause I believe in. It's one of my proudest moments. View quote
Christian Serratos
I decided to go nude because I think that nudity always creates a big reaction. That is what is required to keep people's attention on such a brutal practice .... These poor animals are electrocuted, skinned alive, drowned, and bludgeoned just for the sake of fashion. ... Don't buy fur. Even a little trim-your gloves or your bag or your jackets .... You must remember that animals don't have a voice. You must be their voice. Never be afraid to speak up. View quote
Elisabetta Canalis
Without a hint of shyness, and standing totally in the nude except for a large silver top hat, he took out his "brush" and began sketching portraits of those brave enough to be his subjects. View quote
Pricasso