Paul Outerbridge Quote

The business of the state trying to legislate modesty is relatively both an infantile and ridiculous procedure. Of course, it is true that the more things are secreted the more intriguing they become, because it is always the forbidden that has the strongest appeal. Nudity is a state of fact - lewdity a state of mind.


Paul Outerbridge, Jr: photographs (ed. 1980)


The business of the state trying to legislate modesty is relatively both an infantile and ridiculous procedure. Of course, it is true that the more...

The business of the state trying to legislate modesty is relatively both an infantile and ridiculous procedure. Of course, it is true that the more...

The business of the state trying to legislate modesty is relatively both an infantile and ridiculous procedure. Of course, it is true that the more...

The business of the state trying to legislate modesty is relatively both an infantile and ridiculous procedure. Of course, it is true that the more...