Bears Quote by Kenneth Clark

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

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

— Pierre Klossowski

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

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

— William Blake

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow…

— Kenneth Clark

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

Speaking of nudes, I have always had a great fondness for this subject, both in my paintings and in my photos, and I must…

— Man Ray

Traditionally the Nude was used to express formulations about life as larger-than-life, as Heroic or Ideal... The nude is not a 'genre' subject.

— Isabel Bishop

Painters and sculptors under the Nazis often depicted the nude, but they were forbidden to show any bodily imperfections. Their nudes look like pictures…

— Susan Sontag

Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.

— Paul Mellon

When you get the personality, you don't need the nudity.

— Mae West

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