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Quotes About Body

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.
~ Akhenaton
If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.
~ Walt Whitman
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Move quickly. Sound, calm mind. Be light in body. Have a clever mind. Master the basics.
~ Unknown
Every woman knows the art of saying no with the lips and yes with the rest
~ Marcello Mastroianni
[The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Each body has its art.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.
~ Tacitus
Lookin at herself, but wishing she was someone else because the body of the doll that don't look like hers at all. So she straps it on, she sucks it in, she throws it up and gives a grin.
~ Jack Johnson
Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of mind,body and the soul.
~ Amit Ray
Everything on my body has a meaning. I don't do art just because. It does look cool but it also has a meaning.
~ Carmelo Anthony
The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.
~ Karl Kraus
My body is my art, and it's also the tool that I use to make money.
~ Sasha Grey
We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.
~ Anne Enright
As an artist, I think you always have to take care of yourself as a person probably even more than the average person because your body is so important to your art.
~ Josh Young
Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art.
~ Sara Blakely
You're only popular with anorexia.
~ Tori Amos
My art career often feels less like an art career and more like a career in educating, usually by using my body.
~ Vivek Shraya
Tattooing is historical, cultural and a great form of art but it should always be safe for both the client and the tattoo practitioner.
~ William Webb
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
there's something wrong with any art that makes a woman all bust
~ Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
With Michelangelo anatomical science is transformed into music. With him the human body is architectonic matter for the construction of dreams.
~ Umberto Boccioni
Dance is your words expressed with movement.
~ Unknown
The body is an art to give pleasure to the soul
~ Unknown