Anatomy Quote by Robert Genn

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

I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone.

— Burton Silverman

I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

— J. G. Ballard

Please bear in mind that my observations and thoughts are the outcome of my own unaided impulse and curiosity alone; for, besides myself, in…

— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Could you imagine people eating a painting - if they could introduce a painting into their bodies? It's probably the artist's dream, and we…

— Ferran Adria

If we nourish imagination, we nourish everything else.

— Lloyd Alexander

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

If I give up the viewpoint of action, my perfect nakedness is revealed to me.

— Georges Bataille

The pleasure that attaches to the artistic life comes in imagining what we might do as opposed to acknowledging what we have done.

— Deborah Solomon

What it comes down to, you see, is that a naked body is just a naked body. But the possibility of a naked body…

— Max Barry

“Without imagination, we merely see or hear, and even if we see or hear that the objects of the senses are beautiful, we cannot…

— Mary Warnock

I expected more from literature than from real, naked life.

— Gunter Grass