I don't disagree with seeing a Rubens of a nude body, but I don't believe in a nude body in action. With Rubens, thank goodness, they aren't in action.
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No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals.
I had a natural feeling for sculpture, and the nudes are my sculpture.
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
In my day, people didn't do nude scenes. I mean they didn't exist.
The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous.
There's a certain way people are used to seeing nude women, and that's in a submissive, coy pose, not looking at the camera. And in this poster, I'm looking dead into the camera with no expression on my face. I think it freaks a lot of people out.
I find nothing wrong with the naked body.
In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.
I don't believe in nudity for nudity's sake, but it's really beautiful when it's done well, when it's within a story. I'm very comfortable with my body. I grew up mostly in France, where nudity is not taboo.
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