Posing nude has to be one of my favorite things in the world.
I was asked about doing a nude shoot for men's magazine GQ. I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard.
Every day I studied the nude, and movement in the streets and in the shops. Out of the naturalistic surface with all its variations I wanted to derive the pictorially determined surface.
I sleep in the nude but I pull the sheets up.
When I go to a nude beach, I always take a ruler, just in case I have to prove something.
I don't wear anything in bed. But I'm not ready for a nude scene quite yet.
I feel the sexiest when I'm by myself, walking around nude. I have this new obsession with nudity, it's really weird. It may sound weird, but I just really love embracing the body.
At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on their clothes to keep them from being stolen.
I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
It's difficult to sit down and write a letter back saying, "you know what, even if we remove the word from the dictionary, people will still continue to use it. " That's the tightrope that we walk - "gay marriage" is another example, or the word "nude. "
Nude nail polish wins hands down over intricate nail art.
I did my first nude scene in Mildred Pierce, and that was absolutely terrifying, but it was for an important part of the film and for a reason, and it's incredibly powerful. It's not gratuitous. I think the stuff they show on MTV is so much worse.
In my day, people didn't do nude scenes. I mean they didn't exist.
I don't think paintings of nude women represent all women, but at the same time, I can't fault artists for putting out what inspires and challenges them. But for me, I'm not sure it's necessary for our bodies to define us, especially now when there are so many examples of femininity, of womanhood.
The nude is the perfect expression of freedom. Freedom to be.
When you shoot nude, you always find a way to, like, cover yourself up in a way. So you really don't feel like you're truly naked because you're still covering yourself.
The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can't face up to the fact of other people being naked or smoking pot, or whatever they want to do, then we're never going to get anywhere. People have got to become aware that it's none of their business and that being nude is not obscene. Being ourselves is what's important. If everyone practiced being themselves instead of pretending to be what they aren't, there would be peace.
If exposure of a nude body is thought to incite relations between the sexes, well, what of it. We want a large population anyway.
So must the artist do in working at the nude.
When we respect the nude, we will no longer have any shame about it.
