Action Quote by Bill Jay

Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.

— John Szarkowski

Man tried to imitate God by drawing; then we invented the photo.

— Malick Sidibe

Furthermore, because God created it, The human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty.

— Pope John Paul II

The only thing we photographers really want more than life, more than sex, more than anything, is to be invisible.

— Philip Jones Griffiths

The naked figures in the landscape have willingly undressed for my camera. They are either perfect beings heroically occupying their Edens, or else they…

— Justine Kurland

If God had meant for us to be naked, we'd have been born that way.

— Mark Twain

A person is quite different from a tree or rock or stream. By introducing the nude into my pictures, I started perceiving all the…

— Wynn Bullock

The nude does not simply represent the body, but relates it, by analogy, to all structures that have become part of our imaginative experience.

— Kenneth Clark

If God wanted us to be naked, why did he invent sexy lingerie?

— Shannen Doherty

There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.

— Robert Henri

This photographic thing has changed the entire vision of the world. It will go through every activity of humanity - science, medicine, space, ESP,…

— Lisette Model

Of course [photography] cannot create, nor express all we want to express. But it can be a witness of our passage on earth, like…

— Mario Giacomelli