Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890Quotes
The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.
—Willem de Kooning, 1949If I had the use of my body I would throw it out of the window.
—Samuel Beckett, 1951The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact, barely presentable.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1978Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605