Body

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this .

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

The source of all light is in the eye

The length of a man’s outspread arms is equal to his height.

Man’s external form, marvelously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure.

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.

Make your faces so that they do not all have the same expression, as one sees with most painters, but give them different expression, according to age, complexion, and good or bad character.

The human being, creature of eyes, needs the image.

The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things.

Our body is dependent on heaven and heaven on the Spirit.

If anyone wishes to see how the soul dwells in its body, let him observe how this body uses its daily habitation; that is to say, if this is devoid of order and confused, the body will be kept in disorder and confusion by its soul

I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.

He who wishes to see how the soul inhabits the body should look to see how that body uses its daily surroundings. If the dwelling is dirty and neglected, the 82 body will be kept by its soul in the same condition, dirty and neglected.

We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil.

The water which rises in the mountain is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

The study of what is excellent is food for the mind and body.

The soul can never be corrupted with the corruption of the body, but it is like the wind which causes the sound of the organ, and which ceases to produce a good effect when a pipe is spoilt.

To discover the soul living in s o m e b o dy ’s b o dy, we w at ch t h e surrounding of the body, and if it’s messy and disordered, so is the soul.

The eye is the window of the human body through which it feels its way and enjoys the beauty of the world.

The five senses are the ministers of the soul.

If you are representing a white body let it be surrounded by ample space, because as white has no color of its own, it is tinged and altered in some degree by the color of the objects surrounding it.

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.