47 Quotes About Nakedness

Just because you're naked doesn't mean you're sexy. Just because you're cynical doesn't mean you're cool.

Car s’il y a une vérité, ce serait d’être nu, constamment, nu sans même la peau, avec juste les nerfs et le sang, les muscles et les boyaux pour exprimer le vif de l’humanité : une sorte de philosophie de l’écorchure destinée à se réapproprier les sensations de la première aube.

One should approach life as one approaches a lover-naked.

Civilization is a scheme to hide nakedness.

You accuse her of being ill-dressed. I agree. Clothes don't become her. Everything that hides her, disfigures. It is in the freedom of dishabille that she is truly ravishing.

What is beauty but nakedness unashamed of itself?

Sugar understood the permanence of being Sugar or Lotty or Lucy or whoever you might be, trapped on a square of card to be shown at will to strangers. Whatever violations she routinely submits to in the privacy of bedroom, they vanish the moment they're over, half-forgotten with the drying of sweat. But to be chemically fixed in time and passed hand to hand forever: that is a nakedness which can never be clothed again

Nakedness, ultimate transparency, is also the best disguise.

The poet strips naked. The philosopher takes notes.