Quotes About Human Figure

#1. Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They have acquired the ability to copy.

Robert Henri

#2. There are three kinds of forms in the human figure: Ovoid forms - egg, ball and barrel masses; Column forms - cylinder, cone; Spatulate forms - box, slab and wedge blocks.

Burne Hogarth

#3. It is through the human figure that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life.

Henri Matisse

#4. Resultant SCP-658 measures 45 by 45 by 20 cm. Upper half of object occupied by a single video screen, which constantly displays shaky, colorless footage of an unmoving human figure suspended in mid-air within a featureless room (tentatively identified as [DATA EXPUNGED]).

Anonymous

#5. If you introduce the human figure you at once arouse either disgust or desire.

E. M. Forster

#6. NEED is an overused word. A swirling human figure erupted from the sand - Leo's least favorite goddess, the Mistress of Mud, the Princess of Potty Sludge, Gaea herself.

Rick Riordan

#7. And when he became conscious of a human figure dark against the silver stream, sitting on a large boulder and looking rather like a large bird, it was perhaps with some of the premonitions proper to a man who meets the strangest friendship of his life.

G.K. Chesterton

#8. Computer enhancement has spread to still photography in advertisements, fashion pictorials, and magazine covers, where the human figure and face are subtly elongated or remodeled at will. Caricature is our ruling mode.

Camille Paglia

#9. The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure.

Joseph Addison

#10. As Jesus, the Word, is of divine origin as well as a thoroughly human figure of first-century Palestine, so is the Bible of ultimately divine origin yet also thoroughly a product of its time.

Peter Enns

#11. In the Orthodox religion, you don't draw the human figure. It's against the rules.

Paul Rand

#12. What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape: it is the human figure.

Henri Matisse

#13. When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head.

Rudolf Steiner

#14. It was past midnight. From the carpark of the apartment blocks, a human figure with an unsteady gait emerged.

Lim Thean Soo

#15. One year before the Rapture " ... that proves how marvellous God's love is, even for the most miserable human beings, being that demons can never take a human figure in a perfect form, and so the most stupid people are able to discover them." Nicholas Remy, Daemonolatreiae libri tres, 1595.

Phillip W. Simpson

#16. Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive.

Auguste Rodin

#17. [JMW] Turner could make very little of the human figure once it got too close.

Cal Bedient

#18. Only the human figure exists; landscape is, and should be, no more than an accessory; the painter exclusively of landscape is nothing but a bore.

Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

#19. To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere.

Umberto Boccioni

#20. A boat is the hardest think I know of to put into perspective. It is so much like a human figure, there is something alive about it.

Barry S. Strauss

#21. You ask why I'm fascinated by the human figure? As a human animal, I am interested in some of my fellow animals: in their minds and bodies.

Lucian Freud

#22. The construction of the human figure, its tremendous variety of balance, of size, of rhythm, all those things make the human form much more difficult to get right in a drawing than anything else.

Henry Moore

#23. In many ways, acting is really like a science to me to figure out the human behavior of any character that I'm playing.

Pauley Perrette

#24. I'll figure out how to be truer: to let people go if they need to be let go of, and to hold on tight if that's what's called for. I will pay attention, so I can cross each human heart that comes across my path, cross it as true as I can.

Laura Pritchett

#25. Maybe learning to be human was about learning to live in pain, not trying to figure out how to live pain-free. (156)

Keith Ablow

#26. There ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity. Can you figure out a single thing you really please-God like to do you can do and keep your dignity? The human frame just ain't built that way.

Robert Penn Warren

#27. Using figure B, we can stipulate that an existential risk is equivalent to (i) all red-dot catastrophes, and (ii) any black-dot catastrophe that significantly compromises human well-being.*

Phil Torres

#28. One of the big challenges now is to figure out just how many viruses there really are in the human genome. So far the estimate is 8.3% of our genome is virus, but it actually could be a lot higher.

Carl Zimmer

#29. If people really gave it full consideration, I mean, like if you could return a baby after thirty days' examination like one of those Time-Life books, then I figure the entire human species would go extinct in a month's time.

Barbara Kingsolver

#30. With women, you always have to make an educated decision to figure out what they're thinking. It's not one that's necessarily sympathetic, always. Of course, we're all human beings, but the gender thing is big thing. And a great thing.

Will Oldham

#31. Dumbfounded, I stood before the court, trying to figure out if there was a state of being between "guilty" and "innocent." Why were those my only alternatives? I thought. Why couldn't I be "neither" or "both"? After a long pause, I finally faced the bench and said, "Your Honor, I plead human.

Paul Beatty

#32. Good generalship is a realization that ... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#33. Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are.

Sherry Turkle

#34. I don't know what it means to manage the human imagination, but I do know that imagination is the main source of value in the new economy. And I know we'd better figure out the answer to my question-quick.

Tom Peters

#35. The whole movement of an essay is propelled by a fundamentally human impulse to want to figure things out.

John D'Agata

#36. If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you'd think that the normal condition of humanity was to be a good-looking single person between 20 and 35, with excellent muscle-definition and/or an excellent figure, and a large disposable income.

Francis Spufford

#37. It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua - that even in conditions of peace they don't seem to be able to figure out how to support their people, and the human suffering is enormous.

John Negroponte

#38. I think that Michael Jackson, just as an entertainer, as a figure who embodies the contradictions of black identity and the possibilities of R&B music in the '70s and '80s, will continue to be one of the most recognized and formidable human beings that we've ever produced in our tradition.

Michael Eric Dyson

#39. No one will die because of bad acting. No one will die because you missed a cue. We're all human beings. If mistakes are made, you figure out that you're going to live.

Kate Baldwin

#40. Pornography and obscenity ... work by specialism and fragmentation. They deal with a figure without a ground
situations in which the human factor is suppressed in favor of sensations and kicks.

Marshall McLuhan

#41. The human mind is a strange and wonderful thing," he said reflectively, "but I'm not sure it will ever figure itself out. Everything else, maybe - from sub-atomic particles to the universe - except itself.

Jack Finney

#42. I keep telling myself that I'm a human being, an imperfect human being who's not made to look like a doll, and that who I am as a person is more important than whether at that moment I have a nice figure.

Emma Watson

#43. I guarantee if you walk into 100 spider webs, you will have changed your fundamental human behavior. And you can apply this to anything, And figure out a way to reprogram yourself, to change your primal fear.

Chris Hadfield

#44. It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.

Joyce Meyer

#45. Trying to figure things out was my gig. Without the human condition, there's no struggle, no pain and that means no laughter.

Lenny Bruce

#46. I think anger is a normal response to something horrible that someone has done, another human being has done, and to rob people of life, and that's actually healthy to have, to feel that. At some point you have to figure out, 'How do I let that go?'

Adam Hamilton

#47. We're just floating in space trying to figure out what it means to be human.

John Corey Whaley

#48. The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

Jesse Ventura

#49. Only a small, supernatural figure remained at the scene of the crime.* He did resolve one mystery while in Salem: indeed the devil needs conscious human collusion to work evil.

Stacy Schiff

#50. A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.

Georges Rouault

#51. It's my job to play this role that I'm cast in to the very best of my ability, the same as any other actor. You can't possibly be yourself in the public eye. All the little things that make us human don't stand up under the scrutiny of the camera. [on being a public figure]

Adrian Lamo

#52. I don't think human beings were meant to know so much about the world. All this time and all this
exposure to every conceivable aspect of life - wisdom so rarely enters the picture. We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then
we become bitter and isolated as we age.

Douglas Coupland

#53. Never in my life had I been more frustrated. Go figure it wouldn't be with a human but a freaking alien. At least I now knew that the male species were asses no matter what planet they hailed from.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#54. In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.

Dan Simmons

#55. I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's easiest course at school and our species would not have taken several millennia to figure out the scientific method.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#56. The greatest strength any human being an have is to recognize his or her own weaknesses. When you identify your weaknesses, you can begin to remedy them - or at least figure out how to work around them.

Pat Summitt

#57. There is only one race on this planet: The human race. We are all the same color-blood red, it pumps through all our veins. As soon as we all figure out the power of loving each other the quicker the world will become the place it should be

DeiAmor Verus

#58. I don't see myself as some kind of lone figure standing out there and doing my work in solitary splendour, but as part of the human condition and part of the continuum of writers.

Jeanette Winterson

#59. From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives, high among them cops, doctors, clergymen, journalists and prostitutes. Perhaps that explains why they figure in so much television and cinema. Their lives are lived in the midst of human drama.

Roger Ebert

#60. My interest in gospel music and liturgical art and Biblically-inspired literature has nothing to do with organised religion and everything to do with human beings trying to figure out their place on this planet.

Moby

#61. Since ancient times, sacred texts from around the world foretold about a time period in human history when a mighty demi-god would appear on earth. Whether we call this figure Perseus, Krishna, or Messiah, he is epitomized in the figure of Jesus Christ - the modern equivalent of which is Superman!

Eli Of Kittim

#62. Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

Erma Bombeck

#63. I always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.

Vincent Cassel

#64. Good generalship is the realisation that you've got to figure out how to accomplish your mission with the minimum loss of human life.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#65. We humans can spend our whole lives pondering the meaning of 'good' and 'evil,' but we will never be able to figure it out. The only thing that human beings can do is come up with a yardstick by which to measure good and evil.

Soko Morinaga

#66. A guitar can be so human, so sorrowful, so angry, and I wanted to figure out how to achieve that vibe without having to actually use guitars, because 'Badlands' is a very futuristic record - and making it that in an era of futuristic music is a really hard thing to do!

Halsey

#67. Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one to believe otherwise. Anyone wanting to believe Jesus lived and walked as a real live human being must do so despite the evidence, not because of it.

Dennis McKinsey

#68. The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity.

Terence McKenna

#69. An ancient human religious figure known as John the Baptist had once claimed, "The truth shall make you free," but if Aelyx remembered correctly, John's honesty had been rewarded with a gruesome decapitation. Aelyx hoped for better results.

Melissa Landers

#70. Oprah is a wealthy person, pack leader of the human world. So many see her as the dominant one, as the authority figure. The way I view her energy, seeing her on TV, is a very calm, quiet energy. You need, in order to gain control, higher energy than your dog.

Cesar Millan

#71. The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.

Isaac Asimov

#72. One serial killer sends me a human head in a box, and I get all spooked; Go figure.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#73. Because rage and violence are human emotions and drives and capacities that inhabit us all. SEE CARL JUNG. Or that hipster Joseph Campbell. Because we all take archetypal journeys in a million ways - literal, symbolic, you name it - that figure, disfigure, and refigure violence.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#74. I rationalize out, well, how much help could you really be, you know? And maybe if people saw this, they'd realize the brutality of war and figure out there's got to be some better way than killing human beings who are just trying to farm a field.

Haskell Wexler

#75. Yeah, like that's gonna happen. A transporter with a dog as a pet. Where you going to board him while you're working? On cloud nine?" "Well, aren't you a barrel of laughs? For your information I figure if they will let Death have a human I can at least have a dog.

Abbi Glines

#76. Let me Guess-you lost the coin toss with Dell, which left you stuck with me. Only you don't know how to tell me this because you're a penis-carrying human and can't figure out how to communicate with a mere vagina.

Jill Shalvis

#77. The artist at her best - wild, passionate, rebellious, and human - is often too large and truthful a creature for society's taste. The artist at her most outlandish - profane, eccentric, even a little mad - is at least as disquieting a figure.

Eric Maisel

#78. Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their own planet.

Bill Bryson

#79. For we cannot suppose that States are made of 'oak and rock,' and not out of the human natures which are in them, and which in a figure turn the scale and draw other things after them? Yes,

Plato

#80. Hey, any idea why Australians speak something that sounds deceptively like English but isn't? I mean, I'm trying to figure out why I can't seem to converse with another human being who speaks the same language as I do.

Elle Lothlorien

#81. I figure if I just stay true to myself and I am the Whitney that I've always been, people will look at me not as Whitney from the show, but as a human being.

Whitney Port

#82. We get so swept up in sort of what the media tells us to care about and all these other influences that we really have to dig down deep and figure out what is it that we as human beings really care about and want for ourselves. When you figure that out, you see who you really are.

Sara Rue

#83. I think the whole experience of being a human being on the planet is such a mystery, to be honest. Trying to figure out one's purpose and [asking] "What is it all about?"

Annie Lennox

#84. For most of human history people owned other people. Then, only a hundred and fifty years ago, our ancestors figured out that was a bad idea. One day we'll figure out, or our descendants will figure out, that people owning land they don't live on or work is a bad idea too.

Dennis Vickers

#85. Who was it who said childhood was a thing that ruined everyone's life? Why was it, I wondered, that the human species spent their entire lives trying to figure themselves out?

Wendy Jean

#86. Human interaction. The most complicated form of happiness I will never figure out.

Charlotte Eriksson

#87. I'm pretty mutable as a human being, period - if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out.

Erykah Badu

#88. I found I am not an anarchistic form creator; I'm intuitive, and I'm trying to figure out a way to explore human fragility.

Thomas Vinterberg