Nudity

(162 votes)   We shift and bedeck and bedrape us, thou art noble and nude and antique.

A. C. Swinburne
1837-1909, British Poet

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

John Donne
1572-1632, British Metaphysical Poet

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(145 votes)   When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity.

Mae West
1892-1980, American Actress

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(141 votes)   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
1892-1980, American Actress

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(130 votes)   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
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(124 votes)   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
1881-1973, Spanish Artist

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(106 votes)   To see you naked is to recall the Earth.

Federico Garcia Lorca
1898-1936, Spanish Poet, Dramatist, Musician and Artist

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(95 votes)   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
1744-1797, British Soldier, Author, Artist

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(91 votes)   I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.

Otto Von Bismarck
1815-1898, Prussian Statesman, Prime Minister

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(89 votes)   Pornography tells lies about women. But pornography tells the truth about men.

John Stoltenberg

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