To be naked

To be naked is to be deprived of our clothes and the world implies some of the embarassament which most of us feel in that condition. The World nude, on the other hand, carries no uncomfortable undertone. The Vogue image it projects into the mind is of a balance, prosperous and confindent body: the body re-formed.

Keneth Clark, 1956 in the wall of Tate Modern Gallery, London