Audience Quote by Edgar Degas

Though some will try to deny it, I believe that every woman, at some time in her life, has had or will have the…

— Bunny Yeager

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

The nude, if you tackle it, is a very fascinating subject, especially for a woman.

— Isabel Bishop

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling... The desire to grasp and be united with…

— Kenneth Clark

All aspects of photography interest me and I feel for the female body the same curiosity and the same love as for a landscape,…

— Jeanloup Sieff

There's a certain way people are used to seeing nude women, and that's in a submissive, coy pose, not looking at the camera. And…

— Rooney Mara

I don't think paintings of nude women represent all women, but at the same time, I can't fault artists for putting out what inspires…

— Issa Rae

To me, nudity is a joke. I don't think nude people are very attractive at all. I like my women fully clothed. I like…

— Charles Bukowski

I never did a nude shoot, I always kept myself limited to bikini shoots. This, however, does not mean that I look down on…

— Kashmira Shah

For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.…

— Toyin Odutola

“The acceptance of woman as object of the desiring male gaze in the visual arts is so universal that for a woman to question…

— Linda Nochlin

I grew up studying classic painters. They certainly didn't shy away from nudes. I don't find anything morally reprehensible about it. I think it…

— Anne Hathaway