The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919Quotes
Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
—Oscar Wilde, 1890Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.
—Willem de Kooning, 1949Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body still perseveres.
—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
—Leslie Jamison, 2014The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
—Chinua Achebe, 1958The world is made of the very stuff of the body.
—Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1961Very shy people don’t even want to take up the space that their body actually takes up.
—Andy Warhol, 1975To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605