When it comes to modeling, I always feel like my body is a myth or a story that is told by other people, and no one knows what my body really looks like.
I'm really glad we have Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer and all these girls who are embracing all the different body types.
Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation.
The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer has forgotten it, who should remember it, as the instrument of [the dance] art is the human body itself.
'GLOW' was the first time that, from head to toe, I was asked to use my body in a functional, powerful way as an actor - and that felt amazing.
The painting is always done very much with [the model's] co-operation. The problem with painting a nude, of course, is that it deepens the transaction. You can scrap a painting of someone's face and it imperils the sitter's self-esteem less than scrapping a painting of the whole naked body.
There's people who don't want to see bodies like mine or bodies like their own bodies.
There's all body types, but there's just one size.
You grow up trying to interpret, worshipping, visual symbols. It's a body-soaked imagery that you're looking at.
My existence in Hollywood is a political statement, because there are so few women who are plus-sized or above a size 6.
I'd personally like to see more 'real bodies' in magazines.
I'm interested in looking for solutions because it's become the case that in fashion you're either a villain or a victim. Look at the industry's very limited remit in terms of body size, for example.
I love my body. I love representing people who aren't stick figures, because people aren't.
I'm representing the curvy girls and that's great.
Clothes make the body both mysterious and historical.
The Sun represents the right half of the body and the Moon the left half.
I've never shown up to the set of 'SNL' or 'Girls' without having a million options for me to try on. They don't bat an eye at my body or how to dress me because they dress all kinds of bodies as costumers.
Fashion has come a long way to embrace different body shapes, ethnicities, even looks. I find it an exciting time culturally for these reasons. Women are really coming into their own.
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.
Plus-size girls can look to the Plus-Size Fashion Weekends and feel like it's special - it's something for them and for their bodies.
When a man paints a naked woman he gives her less than poor Nature did. I can conceive of few circumstances wherein I would have to paint a woman naked, but if I did I would not mutilate her for double the money. She is the most beautiful thing there is except a naked man, but I never saw a study of one exhibited.
I think that nudity is beautiful. Sometimes it can be awful, but when it's beautiful? Cinema is the art about reality; it's art from reality. In French we say l'art de la realite. You show reality, so you have to show bodies.
The superhero aesthetic is all about the human form and showing the body, whether they be female or male.
I knew that if I was going to be a model, that it was going to be in the body type that I am. As an athlete, as a woman with hips and thighs and curves, that was me.
A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.
