quotations about nudity
The nudity of that feminine body had risen into her face, the body had reabsorbed it, as nature reabsorbs forsaken gardens.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
The Reprieve
What nudity therefore reveals is its own impudence; what is shown in it is not so much what is secret, as the betrayal of the secret, which is to say profanation itself.
RAOUL MOATI
Levinas and the Night of Being: A Guide to Totality and Infinity
Religious strictures are often the source of attitudes toward nudity. Society urges the wearing of clothing partially as a means of controlling the powerful sexual urges that are feared will be released by nudity, causing chaotic behavior.
PATRICIA GARFIELD
The Universal Dream Key
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
Art can never exist without Naked beauty display'd.
WILLIAM BLAKE
on etching of the Laocoön
Halfway measures, such as loincloths or fig leaves, remain more titillating than complete nudity.
PAUL LUDWIG
Eros and Polis
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"
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
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