Erotic Art Quotes

Though both erotica and pornography refer to verbal or pictorial representations of sexual behavior, they are as different as a room with doors open and one with doors locked. The first might be a home, but the second could only be a prison.

All art is erotic.

What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic.

The nudes of art are not so distant from pornography as prudish pedants pretend.

I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.

Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It's what you don't see that's attractive.

oil paints...the look of licked lips.

All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down. A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.

My works tends to be erotic.

Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.

No erotic work of art is filth if it is artistically significant; it is only turned into filth through the beholder if he is filthy.

Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.

People have done pornographic pictures forever, but most of the people who involve themselves in explicit sexuality aren't really artists.

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter.

Speaking of nudes, I have always had a great fondness for this subject, both in my paintings and in my photos, and I must admit, not for purely artistic reasons.

In the drawing room [of the Queen's palace] hung a Venus and Cupid by Michaelangelo, in which, instead of a bit of drapery, the painter has placed Cupid's foot between Venus's thighs. Queen Caroline asked General Guise, an old connoisseur, if it was not a very fine piece? He replied "Madam, the painter was a fool, for he has placed the foot where the hand should be.

I have no interest in art. Let me clarify — I have no interest in non-nude images.

The Princess Borghese, Bonaparte's sister, who was no saint, sat to Canova as a reclining Venus, and being asked if she did not feel a little uncomfortable, replied, "No. There was a fire in the room."

A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.

There were nude pictures... a lot of it is erotic or sexual. But I don't view my collection as dirty in any way. I view it as art.

For me a nude photograph should be erotic, not devoid of emotion. The body is a sensual thing, sensuality being one of its most beautiful and meaningful qualities.

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

When I found out after that first successful exhibition that the gallery wanted me to do another show like the first one, I come out two years later with four 6-foot drawings of classical nudes masturbating. The gallery director flipped the freak out!

Her nakedness was not absolute, for like Manet's _Olympia__, behind her ear she had a poisonous flower with orange petals, and she also wore a gold bangle on her right wrist and a necklace of tiny pearls. I imagined I would never see anything more exciting for as long as I lived, and today I can confirm that I was right.

I'm not ashamed to admit that occasionally I've found myself aroused by my own depictions of sex.