QUOTES 8/24/2019

“I ended up studying art in college, and freshman year I took drawing classes in which I’d often spend eight straight hours staring at a nude form.  In this intensive studio setting, nudity became almost mundane, nothing more than endless hours of inhaling charcoal dust while staring at an old woman’s knobby spine.  On top of this, there was lots of homework, which often meant having to find models during non-class hours.  Seeing that posing nude was no big deal, I occasionally stripped down in a friend’s dorm room for a few sketches, in addition to having my torso cast in plaster and covering my naked body in paint and splattering it onto a canvas.” – Stephanie Rudig, http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/article/20851691/the-naked-truth-about-nude-drawing-classes

“Nude Nudism Nudist ‘Nude Clip’” (Video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_ixUUXLtDc&t=28s

“My wife and I have just celebrated 40 years of marriage and have just turned 60, and in all those years we have always slept naked.  We could not imagine being clothed in bed, unlike many of our friends we sleep well enjoying natural contact and comfort without the distraction of nightdresses, pajamas, nightshirts etc. . . It is such a joy to still be happily naked in bed, we sleep in contact and rarely wake before morning.  I hear grumbles from friends about insomnia, snoring and separate rooms...ditch the night clothes!” – Crinkly, http://www.naturist-corner.net/community/index.php?topic=15591.0;topicseen

“With nowhere to hide, yet everything on display, in a rapid and total way – I quit trying. . . it feels great. . . When my clothes came off, so did an exhausting volume of psychic weight – but processing its disappearance is tiring too.” – Kate Hennessy, https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/jan/26/just-dont-stare-a-night-of-nudity-and-dancing-at-the-art-gallery

“Consider . . . the ways that figure shaping has altered over the centuries.  Some 150 years ago, women in Europe began wearing bustles beneath their dresses that greatly enlarged the profile of their buttocks.  The bustle had replaced hoop stays, which had produced an inverted-goblet figure.  More recently, the notion of sculpting has been applied directly to the body.  In the 1960s, it took the form of dieting, which produced the sort of extremely skinny figure we associate with such models as Twiggy.  Her thinness connoted vitality, an escape from the matronhood idealized by earlier generations . . . In the 1980s and 90s, women frequently turned to surgery—breast or buttocks augmentation, nose jobs—and other non-surgical interventions (Botox, tanning). . . resistance is futile: we as a society, be it global or national, will always concoct versions of perfection—and aspire to remake ourselves in their image.” - Daniel Kunitz, https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-how-art-has-shaped-female-beauty-ideals-history