Beauty Quote by Isabel Bishop

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 very idea of the nude is only a neutralization of a primitive and violent act.

— Pierre Klossowski

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

Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience. But my women are simple, honest creatures who are concerned with…

— Edgar Degas

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

— Isabel Bishop

The nude gains its enduring value from the fact that it reconciles several contrary states. It takes the most sensual and immediately interesting object,…

— Kenneth Clark

Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.

— John Berger

The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated connoisseurship that…

— Camille Paglia

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

I began to think about the extent to which nude and semi-nude female bodies are commonplace in our present day culture and how young…

— Denise Duhamel

Nude is a word as smoooth as your hips ... but naked has the sound of a rock being turned over to expose maggots.

— Grace Metalious

Erotica: the depiction of naked men. Depictions of naked women are far less innocent and are known as pornography.

— Richard Summerbell