“My favorite color on canvas is nudity.

” Jarod Kintz

“But first of all he is a woodsman, and you aren’t a woodsman unless you have such a feeling for topography that you can look at the earth and see what it would look like without any woods or covering on it. It’s something like the gift all men wish for when they or young–…

“The idea of a belt holding my pants up seems so 20th century. Imagine a world where your pants are held high by your self-esteem. But it’s a silly notion, really, because in a world such as that, nobody would even wear pants.
” Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title

“The terrible poetry of human nudity, I understand it at last, I who tremble for the first time in trying to read it with blasé eyes.” Rachilde, Monsieur Venus

“She had originally agreed to appear naked, but on seeing the cars informed me that she would only appear topless—an interesting logic was at work there.” J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition

“When I was growing up, in our house nudity was defined as the period of time between the shower and your towel.” Amy Cohen, The Late Bloomer’s Revolution: A Memoir

“There’s too much nudity on TV, and not enough on the radio.

” Jarod Kintz, Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

“Someone told me once, ‘It’s time to get you a pair of overalls, boy.’ But I don’t believe in summing up nothin’ – I let my experiences speak for themselves – and even if I did, a synopsis should be singular. That’s why every time I go out to work in the fields, I work…

“I admire nudity and I like sex, and so did a lot of people in the Thirties. But, to me, overexposure blunts the fun…Sex as something beautiful may soon disappear. Once it was a knife so finely honed the edge was invisible until it was touched and then it cut deep. Now it is so…

“For an Irish-Catholic boy with a nudity hang-up, it was an island of terrible freedom in a sea of “No.” John Valentine, Puppies