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The English language, with its elaborate generosity , distinguishes between the naked and the nude. To be naked is to be deprived of our clothes, and the word implies some of the embarrassment most of us feel in that condition. The word "nude," on the other hand, carries, in educated usage, no uncomfortable overtone. The vague image it projects into the mind is not of a huddled and defenseless body, but of a balanced, prosperous, and confident body: the body re-formed. - Kenneth Clark, The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form

It is widely supposed that the naked human body is in itself an object upon which the eye dwells with pleasure and which we are glad to see depicted. But anyone who has frequented art schools and seen the shapeless, pitiful model that the students are industriously drawing will know this is an illusion. The body is not one of those objects which can be made into art by direct transcription — like a tiger or a snowy landscape. Often in looking at the natural and animal world we joyfully identify ourselves with what we see and from this happy union create a work of art. This is the process students of aesthetics call empathy, and it is at the opposite pole of creative activity to the state of mind that has produced the nude. A mass of naked figures does not move us to empathy, but to disillusion and dismay. - Kenneth Clark, The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form

To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude. (The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises. — John Berger, Ways of Seeing

The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. - Gloria Leonard

But all her life the woman is to find the magic of her mirror a tremendous help in her effort to project herself and then attain self-identification. Man, feeling and wishing himself active, subjective, does not see himself in his fixed image; it has little attraction for him, since man’s body does not seem to be an object of desire, while women, knowing and making herself object, believes she really sees herself in the glass. - Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

The living model, the naked body of a woman, is the privileged seat of feeling, but also of questioning... The model must mark you, awaken in you an emotion which you seek in turn to express. When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion. - Henri Matisse

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