“I made my first trip west of the Hudson and it was a revelation. The naked musculature of the Rockies was overpowering and my painting responded.” FirstsMadePaintingWestNakedRevelationsOverpowering Author:Elaine de Kooning
“In the Chauvet Cave, there is a painting of a bison embracing the lower part of a naked female body. Why does Pablo Picasso, who had no knowledge of the Chauvet Cave, use exactly the same motif in his series of drawings of the Minotaur and the woman? Very, very strange.” DoeUseBodyStrangePaintingFemaleSeriesDrawingNakedCavesFemale BodyMotifsMinotaurBison Author:Werner Herzog
“I didn't grow up in a naked household, but nudity was not a taboo thing. My mother was an artist and there were naked sculptures and paintings all over the place.” MotherArtistGrowsGrowing UpPaintingNakedHouseholdSculptureTabooNudity Author:Ingrid Michaelson
“I've always found paintings of nudes depressing because they can't compete with photographs. The grainiest photograph of some girl, a blurry Polaroid - you'd rather look at that than the Venus de Milo, because you think, Wow, that's really somebody... This camera really was in front of this real naked lady.” ThinkingLooksRealGirlFoundFrontsPaintingCamerasPhotographNakedWowDepressingVenusBlurryPolaroidsVenus De Milo Author:John Currin