Top 1200 Body Art Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Disgust for the female body is always tinged with anxiety, since the body symbolizes mortality.

Art to me means lot of things - images and words. I may be no artist myself, but I recognise the pleasure you get from a new proverb or a new painting. It puts you in a particular frame of mind. Visually I like art, philosophically I like art.

I am Walter, a body, but more important than the body is my spirit.

Stretching exercises in the morning for face & body or my body feels heavy and I can't do anything else.

If you think back to the moments when you've gone through the most pain in your life, or the most severe anxiety, your body is very much involved in that. Your body is expressing those emotions. So, when we, as actors, try to access those feelings, the body is a great tool to use.

The less the thought of the body, the better. For it is the body that drags us down.

If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.

The power that made the body, HEALS THE BODY. It happens no other way.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.

Therefore tremble, O man, at any power thou hast, except thou usest it for God. Art thou strong in body; who hath thy strength? God, or thy lusts?

Remove stress from the body and the body regenerates itself. You can heal yourself.

What we commonly call death does not destroy the body, it only causes a separation of spirit and body.

I count my time by times that I meet thee; These are my yesterdays, my morrows, noons, And nights, these are my old moons and my new moons. Slow fly the hours, fast the hours flee, If thou art far from or art near to me: If thou art far, the bird's tunes are no tunes; If thou art near, the wintry days are Junes.

One of the things I love about shooting the most is that there's no specific body type or body build that someone has to have.

I run like an electric golf cart. Now I look at eating as a way to feed my body and keep me younger. It's not about starving your body, but treating your body like a Ferrari. You don't put in the crappiest gas you can find. You use supreme. In the long term, you'll run clean.

The body is precious and the body is always going to speak through its own capacity for communication and love.

I don't have a model's body. But I'm not one of those crazy girls who thinks that they're fat. I'm okay with what I have. I can rock this body, you know?

I loved surrealism and abstract painting, and anything related to those. I always thought painting was the highest form of art. What led me to drawing was seeing so much self-important, pretentious, conceptual-type art in university. I wanted to reject that by making quick, fun art.

The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?

I don't stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.

The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature.

I have only one body, which is the home of my spirit; therefore, I cherish my body.

Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.

Architecture is a wrapping for the human body, and dance is the finest expression of the body.

Yes, I'm doing damage to my body now. The human body isn't designed to be this size.

When an asana is done correctly the body movements are smooth, there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind.

Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the true idea it contains, art has become almost uniquely feminine. Beauty is woman, and also art is woman.

Think about it: you've already related it down to something that somebody else can understand. If art relates to something - it's like Picasso, it's like Mondrian - it's not. Art's supposed to be what it is. Using a reference of art history might help for some kind of sales, but it doesn't really help anybody. Art is what it is; it cannot be footnoted, until it enters the world. Then it has a history. Then the footnotes are the history, not the explanation.

When you are a dancer your body speaks, my body can express itself.

I run like an electric golf cart. Now I look at eating as a way to feed my body and keep me younger. It's not about starving your body, but treating your body like a Ferrari. You don't put in the crappiest gas you can find. You use supreme. In the long term, you'll run clean

The art that I make and that I see others make confirms the miracle of being alive. Almost every day I live in a state of exaltation. The art of painting is to me sacred. It is central to all the other visual arts. This art is in a constant state of renewal.

I don't prefer to fill my body with antibiotics, pesticides, steroids, and growth hormones - my body is my temple, and I treat it as such.

If I put the right fuel in my body, then my body will pretty much do what I ask it to.

Music, for me, in a film is never... I don't want to use music as a slave of the image. I want music to be art, or a body in itself to give something to the film.

I realized that the only possible response was to go to my wonderful local café, Maison Bertaux, check everyone was well, eat a little cake and then make art. To me, making art, and in particular public art, is always an assertion of our humanity and our strength.

All art is propaganda. ... The only difference is the kind of propaganda. Since art is essential for human life, it can't just belong to the few. Art is the universal language, and it belongs to all mankind. All painters have been propagandists or else they have not been painters. ... Every artist who has been worth anything in art has been such a propagandist. ... Every strong artist has been a propagandist. I want to be a propagandist and I want to be nothing else. ... I want to use my art as a weapon.

I think the more rational explanation is that the excision of a five-to-six-foot leech from the surface of a human body means that that body is going to have more of its own blood in its own veins. Unless the leech finds another body, it is going to go hungry.

I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing.

Cookery is the art of preparing food for the nourishment of the body. Prehistoric man may have lived on uncooked foods, but there are no savage races today who do not practice cookery in some way, however crude. Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

In '68 I was 13 years old, so I was a child, but I felt a lot of excitement in listening to things, looking at the pop art coming over from America. My father was an art collector, and he was coming home with these strange pieces of art that weren't exposed in museums. At the time, it was quite revolutionary, very adventurous.

If one really thinks about the body as such, there is no possible outline of the body as such.

I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

I know that I am more than my personality, my body, and my body image.

Yes, I was beaten on every part of my body, and the marks are still on my body.

I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.

[On journalists:] They are as disruptive a menace to the public body: as grating turds in the intestines are to the private body.

Reincarnation is a process of moving from one state of mind to another. Whether you are in a body or out of a body is immaterial.

Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.

You cant get beyond the body unless you free the body itself.

If your energy body is in full vibrancy, the physical body will naturally fix itself.

Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many things. Architecture is science, is technology, is geography, is typography, is anthropology, is sociology, is art, is history. You know all this comes together. Architecture is a kind of bouillabaisse, an incredible bouillabaisse. And, by the way, architecture is also a very polluted art in the sense that it's polluted by life, and by the complexity of things.

My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.

The body is not simply the combination of dance, muscles, body-building, strength and sex: it is a universe.

Pain is part of the body's magic. It is the way the body transmits a sign to the brain that something is wrong.

The spirit is larger than the body. The body is pathetic compared to what we have inside us

the body is simple as a turtle / and straight as a dog: / the body cannot lie.

The one thing you learn as you get older is that the body will do what the body wants. All you can do is try to guide it a little.

The secret of a successful art career is to make more art that folks think they need than pieces they just want. When a piece of art emotionally connects with a person the work becomes a need. You are then on your way to becoming successful.

May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body.