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Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.

—Willem de Kooning, 1949

Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.

—Marcel Proust, 1919

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947

The body says what words cannot.

—Martha Graham, 1985

It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.

—Leslie Jamison, 2014

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949

The enlightened man says: I am body entirely and nothing beside.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883

There is only one antidote to mental suffering and that is physical pain.

—Karl Marx, 1860

My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.

—W.H. Auden, c. 1967

Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.

—Marquis de Sade, 1797

If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.

—Dolly Parton, 2003