Nudity Quotes

• The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Covered Up, Body

  Marilyn Monroe's handwritten note responding to a question about posing nude, as quoted in International Herald Tribune, October 5, 1984.

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• Nudity is natural but not until a person accepts and loves who they are.

  Jolene Blalock

  And Love, Natural, Accepting

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I just think that people are so weird about nudity and the human body. Sex is not bad, naked bodies are not bad and naked bodies don't always have to be connected to sex.

  Emily Browning

  Sex, Thinking, People

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• Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

  William Blake

  Beauty, Art, Creative

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.364, Pearson Education

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

  John Berger

  Beauty, Dresses, Naked

  "Ways of Seeing". Book by John Berger, 1972.

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• We seem okay with violence, but nudity we race to criticize and censor.

  Eva Mendes

  Race, Violence, Criticize

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• In the city, nudity means something; in the wild, it just exists.

  Mason Cooley

  Mean, Cities, Wilderness

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• Woman's nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings.

  Max Ernst

  Beauty, Teaching, Philosopher

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• I love nudity. And I love beautiful shapes.

  Kanye West

  Beautiful, Love Is, Shapes

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Style begins by looking good naked

  Oscar de la Renta

  Style, Naked, Looking Good

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• Why should we think nudity is such a revolting thing in a land where there is so much violence and corruption and racism and hatred? Nudity seems like a welcome relief from all the bullshit in life.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Thinking, Land, Racism

  SPIN interview, thechilisource.com. February 1990.

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• Nudity doesn't scare me at all; the only thing about it is the perception by the audience.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Perception, Scare, Audience

  Source: www.discdish.com

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• There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.

  F. H. Bradley

  Naked, Dislike

  F.H. Bradley, Carol Keene (1999). “F.H. Bradley: Miscellaneous Writings”, Thoemmes

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• Nudity is who people are at the most interesting point of the evening, when they take off their protective layer, when no one is watching.

  Bridget Fonda

  People, Interesting, Layers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not body-shy -- it's hard to grow up in the Summerlands, where clothes are solidly optional, and stay body-shy -- but that doesn't mean I enjoy nudity. Naked people are, by definition, unarmed.​

  Mira Grant

  Growing Up, Mean, Clothes

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• Her nudity is her armor. It blinded the drooling fools. They couldn't see anything else while they saw her body.

  Brent Weeks

  Armor, Body, Saws

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• Nudity is a state of fact; lewdity, to coin a phrase, is a state of mind

  Paul Outerbridge

  Mind, Phrases, Coins

  Paul Outerbridge, Jeannine Fiedler (1993). “Paul Outerbridge Jr: photographs”

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

  John Donne

  Joy, Soul, Body

  John Donne (1993). “Selected Poems”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.

  Milan Kundera

  Sides, Uniforms, Shrouds

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• If you want to destroy any nation without war, make adultery or nudity common in the young generation

  Saladin

  War, Young Generation, Generations

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• A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

  Honore de Balzac

  Naked, Skirts, Dangerous

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• I come from a country where you don't wear clothes most of the year. Nudity is the most natural state.

  Elle Macpherson

  Country, Years, Clothes

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• Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.

  John Updike

  Beauty, Naked, Revolutionary

  John Updike (2013). “Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism”, p.77, Random House

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• I've always found it very difficult to understand the laws as far as nudity in America - how some things are pornographic and some things are not pornographic. It's against the law to go topless on the beach, but you can go buy a gun. That just seems so absurd to me.

  Elle Macpherson

  Beach, Gun, Law

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• Nudity in the flesh doesn't bother me. But having my mind uncovered - that scares the hell out of me.

  Margot Kidder

  Mind, Scare, Flesh

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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