Top 33 Nudes Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Nudes

#1. My makeup artist likes to define my brows with Maybelline Brow Drama. We brush up on the part closest to my nose and it's straight after that. Then, I like to use the matte brown shades from Maybelline The Nudes Palette to shadow my eyes, but without it looking like I'm wearing much.

Gigi Hadid

#2. I went to art school, and every Tuesday and Friday we drew the nude. If you look at Western painting, male and female nudes are in the center of every painting. It's difficult and exciting to draw the nude. Why get so upset about this? It's our duty to break taboos.

Peter Greenaway

#3. I started photographing men in 1964. Fourteen years later I got a Guggenheim, even so no one would publish the male nudes.

Judy Dater

#4. I must learn to express the gentle vibration of things: the intrinsically rough texture. I must find this expression in drawings; in the way in which I draw my nudes here in Paris, more original and at the same time sensitively observed.

Paula Modersohn-Becker

#5. I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.

Ad Reinhardt

#6. Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

John Hurt

#7. Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness.

Kenneth Clark

#8. When I found out after that first successful exhibition that the gallery wanted me to do another show like the first one, I come out two years later with four 6-foot drawings of classical nudes masturbating. The gallery director flipped the freak out!

Betty Dodson

#9. Photography is not cute cats, nor nudes, motherhood or arrangements of manufactured products. Under no circumstances it is anything ever anywhere near a beach.

Walker Evans

#10. The nudes of art are not so distant from pornography as prudish pedants pretend.

Mason Cooley

#11. I had a natural feeling for sculpture, and the nudes are my sculpture.

Ruth Bernhard

#12. I photographed rocks and trees and tide pools and nudes and all that stuff for years and years. Until 20 years ago when I found that I could do it in the studio and never have to travel.

Kim Weston

#13. If the birds sing, the nudes are not far off.

John Hawkes

#14. I think of the nudes as seed pods, like flowers or grasses. They are universal bodies.

Ruth Bernhard

#15. When I began to photograph nudes, I let myself be guided by this camera, and instead of photographing what I saw, I photographed what the camera was seeing. I interfered very little, and the lens produced anatomical images and shapes which my eyes had never observed.

Bill Brandt

#16. Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes ... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition.

Kazimir Malevich

#17. I like to paint nudes mostly.

Cleo Moore

#18. And one has eaten and one walks,
past the magazines with nudes
and the posters for bullfight and
the Manhattan Storage Warehouse,
which they'll soon tear down.

Frank O'Hara

#19. I've done a lot of nudes and there's always a sexual charge.

Judy Dater

#20. I've fallen in love with the classical world of imagery, and what I'd like to do now over the last bit of my life is to photograph some nudes.

Don McCullin

#21. When you can't think of anything else, photograph graffiti, nudes, or plants.

Bill Jay

#22. My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#23. 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 were not about nudity.

Lexa Doig

#24. To be sexy, nudes need a little underwear.

Mason Cooley

#25. Cynda and her current crazy boyfriend. This one was a nude painter. He didn't paint nudes, he painted in the nude.

Tracy Ewens

#26. In 1958 I finally found a large enough apartment on the Lower East Side, where I reverted to figure painting. I drew and painted quite a lot of figures and nudes. People would come and pose for me.

Claes Oldenburg

#27. In an exhibition wherein paintings of nudes were commonplace, that of Madame Gautreau in her black evening dress was considered scandalously erotic. -from The Greater Journey

David McCullough

#28. Speaking of nudes, I have always had a great fondness for this subject, both in my paintings and in my photos, and I must admit, not for purely artistic reasons.

Man Ray