Art Quote by Laurie Halse Anderson

Why not draw naked guys, just to be fair? Naked women is art, naked guys a no-no, I bet. Probably because most painters are…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“The history of art is full of women lying around naked for erotic consumption by men.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“What interested these painters was evidently the fact that my clothes were torn off, which allowed them to paint a naked woman in distress,…

— Margaret Atwood

When a man paints a naked woman he gives her less than poor Nature did. I can conceive of few circumstances wherein I would…

— Thomas Eakins

The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about…

— Odilon Redon

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

“I am fascinated that no one I have read seems to have noticed that the literature on Picasso continually turns grown-up women into girls.”

— Siri Hustvedt

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

“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

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

“Nudity is an art. Besides, art is only nudity... There’s no more art, only too much civilization. Art is barbarious... Art is loneliness... Nothingness…

— Raúl Ruiz

“Men admitted to being endlessly fascinated with the naked female form; they appreciated women in a detached, impersonal way that women, even those women…

— Gay Talese