Body Quote by Jock Sturges

I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures…

— Jock Sturges

The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its…

— George Bernard Shaw

I would leave halfway through a photoshoot, because I couldn't bear looking at myself or being in front of a camera. I used to…

— Jesy Nelson

I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

A body like yours ought to be in jail, because it's on the verge of being obscene.

— Prince

Before I was a mother, if I'd been photographed in a bikini, I'd have been mortified.

— Kate Winslet

What makes [photography] obscene is its terrible cruelty. Happiness may be fleeting, but it's the reason we go on living. Photography is the joy…

— Nobuyoshi Araki

I was photographing every meal I ate, every person I met, every waiter or waitress who served me, every bed I slept in, every…

— Stephen Shore

I wasn't interested in just photographing someone naked, I was interested in representing them as clothed in their own skin, secure in themselves.

— Mona Kuhn

But I could never make a judgement that something was obscene.

— Damien Hirst

When I began to photograph nudes, I let myself be guided by this camera, and instead of photographing what I saw, I photographed what…

— Bill Brandt

I don't think that there's anything that we shouldn't be allowed to photograph, really, unless there's something that's really deeply harmful to the subject…

— Brady Corbet