Art Quote by Man Ray

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

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 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, even if it be only the faintest shadow…

— Kenneth Clark

A good nude photograph can be erotic, but certainly not sentimental or pornographic.

— Bill Brandt

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

I've always found paintings of nudes depressing because they can't compete with photographs. The grainiest photograph of some girl, a blurry Polaroid - you'd…

— John Currin

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

At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's all about.

— Marlene Dumas

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

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

I did some artistic nudes when I was I 8 with a French-Canadian photographer while I was modeling. They were beautiful shots, and they…

— Lexa Doig