Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.
—Willem de Kooning, 1949Quotes
Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.
—Karl Marx, 1860My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
—W.H. Auden, c. 1967Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003