Human Body And Art Quotes

#1. The human body is the best work of art.

Jess C. Scott

#2. Of all the various peoples of this world, none leaves the human body in the simple state of nature in which it was born.

Jacqueline Delange

#3. There's nobody I don't like. Maybe in six years it will be different.

Courtney Thorne-Smith

#4. A smile is the most pleasing sight one could behold when talking to another person.

Ronald A. Valentino

#5. No matter how hard you try to create a story that's completely fictional, parts of your own experience are bound to surface.

Hiroshi Ishizaki

#6. I know that Buddhism is to Hinduism what Protestantism is to Roman Catholicism, only in a much stronger light, to a much greater degree.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect.

Thomas De Quincey

#8. Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other hand, work from left to right. The discardable chapters are on the left.

Annie Dillard

#9. You feel very romantic when you're in a ball gown. Everyone should wear one once in a while.

Carolina Herrera

#10. What you feel in the presence of a thing you admire is just one word - 'Yes.' The affirmation, the acceptance, the sign of admittance.

Ayn Rand

#11. But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.

Voltaire

#12. Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty, and mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that a word, a breath, a look, nay, a thought may injure it.

Nikola Tesla

#13. At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.

Salma Hayek

#14. Believe that God loves you so as you cannot conceive of it; even with your sin and in your sin he loves you.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#15. Perhaps what matters is not the human pain or joy at all but, rather, the play of shadow and light on a live body, the harmony of trifles assembled ... in a unique and inimitable way.

Vladimir Nabokov

#16. In the absence of any concrete evidence. I plump for Leonard Stock as the murderer. First, because he's the most unlikely person, and as anyone who has ever read a murder story knows, it's always the most unlikely person who turns out to have done the deed--and fifty thousand authors can't be wrong.

M.M. Kaye

#17. ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question? Pray, what was your father saying? - Nothing.

Laurence Sterne

#18. All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.

Hildegard Of Bingen

#19. I know for certain that God does not make mistakes, but he does make miracles. I am one. You are, too.

Nick Vujicic

#20. The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.

Alfred North Whitehead

#21. 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.

Isadora Duncan

#22. The medium of poetry is a human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx and the mouth. In this sense, poetry is just as physical or bodily an art as dancing.

Robert Pinsky

#23. Tattooing, when understood in its entirety, must be seen as a religious act. The human being brings forth images from the center of the self and communicates them to the world. Fantasy is embodied in reality and the person is made whole.

Spider Webb

#24. The biggest surprise to people is that I sang background on Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' album.

Toni Tennille

#25. The grist for my mill is the human body and the art of healing.

Richard Selzer

#26. A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition.

V. Vale

#27. The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.

Kenneth Tynan

#28. To practice properly the Art of Peace, you must: Calm the spirit and return to the source. Cleanse the body and spirit by removing all malice, selfishness, and desire. Be ever grateful for the gifts received from the universe, your family, Mother nature, and your fellow human beings.

Morihei Ueshiba

#29. I am intrigued by the basics of human life, by our vulnerability, our desires, our sexuality - as far as I am concerned, character is expressed through sexuality. Art is able to represent human existence stripped to its essence by showing us the naked human body.

Thomas Koerfer

#30. With Michelangelo anatomical science is transformed into music. With him the human body is architectonic matter for the construction of dreams.

Umberto Boccioni

#31. I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece.

Hedda Hopper