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The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Lovemaking is the consolation for living in the body, just as art is the consolation for living in the world.
— Laura Argiri
Mind power is my art ... ... so bring the canvas of your mind closer and I will create a masterpiece.
— Stephen Richards
Chymia, or Alchemy and Spagyrism, is the art of resolving compound bodies into their principles and of combining these again.
— Georg Ernst Stahl
I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art.
— Steve Mann
With Michelangelo anatomical science is transformed into music. With him the human body is architectonic matter for the construction of dreams.
— Umberto Boccioni
A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are no maps. Maps are pictures of what isn't.
— Russell Hoban
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
— John Ruskin
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?
— William Gurnall
I'm trying to create flesh architecture. I aim to get a sculptural feel for groups of bodies, as well as create performance art.
— Spencer Tunick
Relaxing is hard to do at times. Worrying and agitation are even harder on the body and mind.
— Art Hochberg
Of all the various peoples of this world, none leaves the human body in the simple state of nature in which it was born.
— Jacqueline Delange
Our bodies are simply our shells, the package for the spirit and the soul.
— Eric Samuel Timm
The masks of her life would become the mythical body of her art.
— Edward Butscher
In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.
— Edward Abbey
My body is a gradual work of art
— Rick Genest
...tango is art, not sex. Yes, it is art made with your body and someone else's. But not sex.
— Kapka Kassabova
[The sensate body possesses] an art of interrogating the sensible according to its own wishes, an inspired exegesis
— Maurice Merleau Ponty
When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.
— Wanda Koop
Feed the body food and drink, it will survive today. Feed the soul art and music, it will live forever.
— Julie Andrews
We should learn as a people to pay good money for the food that feeds the soul and mind, same as we do for the food that feeds the body.
— Nana Awere Damoah
Prior to Schneemann, the female body in art was mute and functioned almost exclusively as a mirror of masculine desire.
— Jan Avgikos
Cleanse your body and soul, removing malice, selfishness and desire.
— Morihei Ueshiba
I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
— Barbara Hepworth
The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.
— Maurice Merleau Ponty
A tattoo is art and not a possession as love is beauty and intangible. A tattoo is a promise, not an accessory.
— Danielle Valenilla
Move quickly. Sound, calm mind. Be light in body. Have a clever mind. Master the basics.
— Gogen Yamaguchi
The body is living art. Your movement through time and space is art. A painter has brushes. You have your body.
— Anna Halprin
The saying 'the arts aid the body' is for samurai of other regions. For samurai of the Nabeshima clan the arts bring ruin to the body.
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.
— Karl Kraus
Beauty is the product of the dominant ideology. (Thus when ideology changes, the ideal body follows.) We can see that in the history of art.
— Orlan
Fashioning the body, defining the self.
— Unknown
Gurl,if you were a flower I will plant you in heart,watering you with my blood and cover you with my body.
— Knight Mayor
Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
Everything on my body has a meaning. I don't do art just because. It does look cool but it also has a meaning.
— Carmelo Anthony
Each body has its art...
— Gwendolyn Brooks