I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.

— Robert A. Heinlein

The statue was of a nude woman playing a slide trombone. It was entitles, enigmatically, Evelyn and Her Magic Violin.

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Keep shooting. It helps the model's confidence. Flashing strobes are likeapplause.

— A.K. Nicholas

I am sometimes in awe of all that I have been exposed to culturally that I never would have discovered if not for the pursuit of sex or sexual gratification. I think of all the movies I watched when I was young simply because I thought I might glimpse a nude body.

— Drew Nellins Smith

Naked you are blue like the night in Cuba,you have vines and stars in your hair,.

— Pablo Neruda

Any files I give to the model are downsized (typically 800x1200 pixels)... By not giving out my high resolution files, they cannot be used without my knowledge.

— A.K. Nicholas

When a fat person goes in the water naked, would it still be called skinny-dipping?

— Anthony Liccione

Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing. I am weary, even more than I am ashamed, of seeing such things. Nowadays people are as good as born in their clothes, and there is practically not a nude human being in existence. An artist, therefore, as you must candidly confess, cannot sculpture nudity with a pure heart, if only because he is compelled to steal guilty glimpses at hired models. The marble inevitably loses its chastity under such circumstances. An old Greek sculptor, no doubt, found his models in the open sunshine, and among pure and princely maidens, and thus the nude statues of antiquity are as modest as violets, and sufficiently draped in their own beauty. But as for Mr. Gibson's colored Venuses (stained, I believe, with tobacco juice), and all other nudities of to-day, I really do not understand what they have to say to this generation, and would be glad to see as many heaps of quicklime in their stead.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

One of the fundamental rights of mankind should be that of wearing as many or as few clothes as one likes inside one's own home.

— Sachin Kundalkar

Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear no masks whatsoever in order to be accepted and liked; they do seem most guarded, but only by their own hands: as compared to the populace, they are naked.

— Criss Jami