Clothes Quote by Odilon Redon

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 painting is always done very much with [the model's] co-operation. The problem with painting a nude, of course, is that it deepens the…

— Lucian Freud

“Picasso sure had a thing for naked women. Why not draw them with their clothes on? Who sits around without a shirt on, plucking…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

So must the artist do in working at the nude.

— Antonio Canova

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

“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

“Nude paintings and sculptures are called "art" only in the museums.. Outside of the museums, It is "Absurdity" and "Vulgarity". To respect your own…

— Himmilicious

In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture…

— John Berger

The key is what is within the artist. The artist can only paint what she or he is about.

— Lee Krasner

If an artist does not have an erotic involvement with everything that he sees, he may as well give up. To be a human…

— Lucas Samaras

“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

Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter…

— Rainer Maria Rilke