25 Quotes About Nudity
Because we’re naked as a jaybird and happy as a clam
We all get naked, but we don’t all feel the same way about it. Whether people believe the naked body is a work of art that should be celebrated or something shameful that should be covered up most of the time, these quotes about nudity explore a range of ideas.
1. “I think women are sexy when they got some clothes on. And if later they take them off then you’ve triumphed. Somebody once said it’s what you don’t see you’re interested in, and this is true.” -Groucho Marx
2. “Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.” -William Blake
3. “Nudity isn’t in appearance, it’s in thoughts.” -Amol Gade
4. “In the nude, all that is not beautiful is obscene.” -Robert Bresson
5. “There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.” -Agnes Repplier
6. “I’m totally comfortable with nudity. I’m not sure it empowers me as an actress or anything, but if I’m going to do a movie with sex scenes, then I’m going to be naked, because I don’t know about you, but I don’t have sex with bras and panties on.” -Shailene Woodley
7. “You don’t have to be naked to be sexy.” -Nicole Kidman
8. “We are all born naked into this world, but each of us is fully clothed in potential.” -Emmitt Smith
9. “The best contraceptive for old people is nudity.” -Phyllis Diller
10. “If people were meant to run around naked, they wouldn’t have been born wearing clothes.” -Reverend Loveshade
11. “I was never one who was squeamish about nudity. I don’t believe in being promiscuous about it, but several times I thought of going to a nudist colony.” -Bettie Page
12. “I do everything completely naked.” -Tom Ford
13. “The problem with our society is that our values aren’t in the right place. There’s an awful lot of bleeding and naked bodies on prime-time networks, but not nearly enough cable television on public programming.” -Bauvard
14. “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” -Mark Twain
15. “Nudity is the costume of lovers and corpses.” -Mason Cooley
16. “The existence in so many places of the tendency toward nudity, is not a testimony to the fallenness of man. It is rather a testimony of the original condition of man. What was normal and ‘very good’ for man in his original state, still exists as a desire in his soul. The inner desire to be naked and unashamed is a longing to get back to our original perfection.” -Philo Thelos
17. “Nudity is natural, but not until a person accepts and loves who they are.” -Jolene Blalock
18. “If the world wouldn’t persecute me, I’d take nude pictures every day of the week.” -Halle Berry
19. “She had originally agreed to appear naked, but on seeing the cars informed me that she would only appear topless — an interesting logic was at work there.” -James Graham Ballard
20. “Eros will have naked bodies; friendship naked personalities.” -C.S. Lewis
21. “Sometimes nudity is sexy. Sometimes it’s not. Sometimes being clothed is more sexy than being nude.” -Helen Mirren
22. “Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.” -John Updike
23. “Sometimes nudity is gratuitous. We just live in a society where everything goes.” -Judi Dench
24. “I tell you, you get your penis out once, and everyone expects it in the rest of your movies.” -Jason Segel
25. “When I took my clothes off in Blue Velvet, I wanted to convey the brutality of sex abuse. I wanted to look like a quartered cow hanging in a butcher shop, as well as disturbingly appealing.” -Isabella Rossellini
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