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When I look at a drawing of a person, I look at that person as living. By Francesco Clemente Living Person Drawing

But now living women wanted to be doll-like, to cross the frontier and look like toys. Now the doll was the original, the woman the representation. These living dolls, these stringless marionettes, were not just "dolled up" on the outside. Behind their high-style exteriors, beneath that perfectly lucent skin, they were so stuffed full of behavioral chips, so thoroughly programmed for action, so perfectly groomed and wardrobed, that there was no room left in them for messy humanity. By Salman Rushdie Dolllike Toys Women Wanted Cross

When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit of treating the body as a machine, whose muscles are like pulleys and its organs engines, forces its poetry underground, so that we experience the body as an instrument and see its poetics only in illness. By Thomas Moore Soul Beauty Expressiveness Body Poetry

The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core. By B.k.s. Iyengar Soul Core Physical Body Temple

Living in the modern world, clothed and muffled, forced to convey our sense of our bodies in terms of remote symbols like walking sticks and umbrellas and handbags, it is easy to lose sight of the immediacy of the human body plan. By Margaret Mead Living World Clothed Muffled Forced

In contrast to the inorganic thereness of lifeless matter, living beings are not mere appearances. To be alive means to be possessed by an urge toward self-display which answers the fact of one's own appearingness. Living things make their appearance like actors on a stage set for them. By Hannah Matter Living Contrast Inorganic Thereness

When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the thing by depicting it. By Gerhard Richter Make Exists Representation Analogy Effort

Being embodied as such is no insurance against feelings of hopelessness or meaningslessness. Beyond his body, he still has to know who he is. By R.d. Laing Meaningslessness Embodied Insurance Feelings Hopelessness

The most powerful part of the art is experiential, yet it's the hardest to describe because it's nonverbal. By Janet Echelman Experiential Nonverbal Powerful Part Art

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. By George Santayana Instrument Function Operation Body Mind

The symbols of the self arise in the depths of the body, and they express its materiality every bit as much as the perceiving consciousness. The symbol is thus a living body By Carl Jung Body Consciousness Arise Depths Express

Bodies are not only biological phenomena but also complex social creations onto which meanings have been variously composed and imposed according to time and space. By Katrina Karkazis Bodies Space Biological Phenomena Complex

The most exuberant expression of the body is in dance. Dance theater is wonderful. The dance becomes fluent sculpture. The body shapes the emptiness poignantly and majestically. The By John O'donohue Dance Exuberant Expression Body Wonderful

If you're playing somebody who is not you, then you can imagine that you are that person. You can feel like he feels, move like he moves, look like he looks - in your own mind. By Morgan Freeman Person Playing Imagine Mind Feel

Manifestation is a process by which we transform seemingly unrealizable imaginations to reality. By Debasish Mridha Manifestation Reality Process Transform Seemingly

Human perception is literally incarnation. By Marshall Mcluhan Human Incarnation Perception Literally

Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence ... So many of us are not in our bodies, really at home and vibrantly present there. Nor are we in touch with the basic rhythms that constitute our bodily life. We live outside ourselves - in our heads, our memories, our longings - absentee landlords of our own estate. My way back into life was ecstatic dance. I reentered my body by learning to move my self, to dance my own dance from the inside out, not the outside in. By Gabrielle Roth Existence Life Ground Metaphor Expression

My body is an avatar. By Vanna Bonta Avatar Body

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings. By Theodor Adorno Human Imitation Indissolubly Linked Imitating

Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Action Consciousness Process Fully Formed

I've finally recognized my body for what it is: a personality-delivery system, designed expressly to carry my character from place to place, now and in the years to come. By Anna Quindlen Place System Designed Finally Recognized

Whereas representation attempts to absorb simulation by interpreting it as a false representation, simulation envelops the whole edifice of representation itself as a simulacrum. Such would be the successive phases of the image: it is the reflection of a profound reality; it masks and denatures a profound reality; it masks the absence of a profound reality; it has no relation to any reality whatsoever; it is its own pure simulacrum. By Jean Baudrillard Representation Simulation Profound Simulacrum Reality

This is the essence for every human being to realize that who they are, essentially, is far more than the physical body and is far more than the mental body, the psychological makeup, the psychological "me" body. Who they are is far deeper than that. By Eckhart Tolle Body Psychological Essentially Makeup Essence

Acting is not a lofty performance; it is simply the source of becoming and existing transparently. Acting, I find, is the art of frothing to the surface every raw and honest emotion. The moment an actor pretends, he loses his audience forever By Masiela Lusha Acting Performance Transparently Lofty Simply

I not only have a body; I am this body. By Gabriel Marcel Body

In order to inhabit a character, you've got to embrace and empathise with them. By Willem Dafoe Character Order Inhabit Embrace Empathise

I would say that the whole way that I have approached the body is as a space, not a thing - not an object to be improved, idealised or whatever, but simply to be dwelt in. By Antony Gormley Space Thing Improved Idealised Approached

Emphasizing the body as art, these artists amplified the role of process over product and shifted from representation objects to presentational modes of action. By Kristine Stiles Emphasizing Art Action Body Artists

Metaphor is embodied in language. By Dennis Potter Metaphor Language Embodied

The mind is inherently embodied.Thought is mostly unconscious.Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical. By George Lakoff Metaphorical Mind Inherently Embodiedthought Unconsciousabstract

I'm not just somebody shuffling around in a monster suit. I'm a kind of puppeteer from the inside who is attempting through arm and body movements to give the creatures I play a sense of personality. By Kevin Peter Hall Suit Shuffling Monster Personality Kind

The endless procession of people and things that forms the world is for me an interminable gallery of pictures whose content bores me. It doesn't interest me because the soul is a monotonous thing and is always the same in everyone; it differs only in its personal manifestations and the best part of it is that which overflows into dreams, into mannerisms and gestures, and thus becomes part of the image that so captures my interest [ ... ] This is how I experience the animate exteriors of things and beings, in pure vision, indifferent as a god from another world to their content, to their spirit. I only go deep into the surface of other people, if I want profundity I look for it in myself and in my concept of things. By Fernando Pessoa Things Endless Procession Forms Interminable

Each action we take is an act of self-expression. We often think of large-scale or important deeds as being indications of our real selves, but even how we sharpen a pencil can reveal something about our feelings at that moment. Do we sharpen the pencil carefully or nervously so that it doesn't break? Do we bother to pay attention to what we're doing? How do we sharpen the same pencil when we're angry or in a hurry? Is it the same as when we're calm or unhurried?Even the smallest movement discloses something about the person executing the action because it is the person who's actually performing the deed. In other words, action doesn't happen by itself, we make it happen, and in doing so we leave traces of ourselves on the activity. The mind and body are interrelated. By H.e. Davey Sharpen Pencil Selfexpression Action Act

At each moment we are expressing what we know ourselves to be. If we know ourselves very little we will express and manifest that unconsciousness of our true nature. If we know who and what we are very thoroughly, we will express and manifest that in what we do. It is all very simple. By Adyashanti Express Manifest Moment Expressing Nature

Art in its widest sense is the extension of the personality: a host of artificial limbs. By Herbert Read Art Personality Limbs Widest Sense

When I connect to my soul, project it into another # character , and then bring it to the stage or to a filmthat has always been for me the great joy of # acting . It's been as if my soul kind of leaps out of my body and is able to be free and dance around. By Kyra Sedgwick Character Acting Soul Project Connect

We sense that the human body is a precious thing, worthy of our reverence. It is not a tool, not an object of consumption like a steak or a keg of beer, not an animate provider of pleasure. It is the outward expression of a profound mystery, that of another human being. By Anthony Esolen Thing Worthy Reverence Sense Body

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing. By Zoe Saldana Act Playing Part Character

Let soul speak with the silent articulation of a face. By Rumi Face Soul Speak Silent Articulation

One of the things that I think about is: How do you make moments that float, transparent? Moments that could just float away. How do you make a body accountable for its language, its positioning? Why not make a body accountable for its language? By Claudia Rankine Transparent Make Moments Language Float

Realizing that our minds control our bodies while our bodies reflect our minds amounts to understanding the most fundamental aspects of ourselves. It further equals a comprehension of the relationship between our "tools." And since the mind and body are interrelated, this understanding makes it easier to see why coordinating them is a practical way of using these tools to greatest effect - a way of using the mind and body to live our lives as art. By H.e. Davey Bodies Realizing Minds Mind Control

The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself. By Andre Gide Cut Personage Anxiety Figure Constantly

Being in touch with our bodies, or more accurately, being our bodies, is how we know what is true. Harriet By Harriet Lerner Bodies Accurately True Harriet Touch

For at some point, each of us will be asked to embody what we feel and know. By Chang-Rae Lee Point Asked Embody Feel

Actions are not impostions on who we are, but are expressions of who we are. They come out of our heart and the inner realities it supervises and interacts with By Dallas Willard Actions Impostions Expressions Heart Realities

In my acting, I have tried to do this - to present to audiences a living creature in whom they can recognise themselves or someone they know. By Luise Rainer Acting Present Audiences Living Creature

Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind words or paintings or statues or other forms of human expression, but the moment you move you stand revealed, for good or ill, for what you are. By Doris Humphrey Gesture Inevitably Reveals Man Movement

A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being. By Edwin Percy Whipple Thought Embodied Embrained Fit Words

Life probably does not hand us any more visceral experience of how we mistakenly define ourselves than by means of our physical body. From the day we were born, the message we received from the world was that we are our body. This was the first great lie we were given by means of the collective consciousness of humankind, which has always valued itself from the outside in. By Dennis Merritt Jones Body Life Hand Visceral Experience

Imitation is for the most part so unconscious that its effects are almost unheeded, but its influence is not the less permanent on that account. It is only when an impressive nature is placed in contact with an impressionable one that the alteration in the character becomes recognizable. Yet even the weakest natures exercise some influence upon those about them. The approximation of feeling, thought, and habit is constant, and the action of example unceasing. By Samuel Smiles Imitation Unheeded Account Part Unconscious

Only by affirming the animateness of perceived things do we allow our words to emerge directly from the depths of our ongoing reciprocity with the world. By David Abram World Affirming Animateness Perceived Things

My body is just a costume for my soul. By Apollo Poe Soul Body Costume

To be embodied with a petition is to have something to deliver By Sunday Adelaja Deliver Embodied Petition

There cannot be a whole complete human being without an integration of feeling with thinking and acting, provided by 'doing', arising spontaneously out of the fundamental experience of 'being'. By Harry Guntrip Acting Provided Arising Complete Human

We strive all the time to give our life its form, but we do so by copying willy-nilly, like a drawing, the features of the person that we are and not of the person we should like to be. By Marcel Proust Person Form Willynilly Drawing Strive

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. By Martha Graham Body Dance Creature Instrument Art

I'm a very physical actor; everything I do is pretty much body-oriented. I sometimes am able to deliver information just with a look; my face does two or three different things, and it says it all. By Terry Crews Actor Bodyoriented Physical Pretty Things

You have an awareness of your body and how to use it and I think that if you can embody a character physically it's another really useful tool. By Mia Wasikowska Tool Awareness Body Embody Character

[ ... ] the body is what we lean toward,tensing as it darts, dancing away.but it's the voice that enters us. evensaying nothing. even saying nothingover and over absently to itself By Tracy K. Smith Darts Dancing Body Lean Towardtensing

The Ideas of primary Qualities of Bodies, are Resemblances of them, and their Patterns do really exist in the Bodies themselves; but the Ideas, produced in us by these Secondary Qualities, have no resemblance of them at all. There is nothing like our Ideas, existing in the Bodies themselves. They are in Bodies, we denominate from them, only a Power to produce those Sensations in us: And what is Sweet, Blue or Warm in Idea, is but the certain Bulk, Figure, and Motion of the insensible parts in the Bodies themselves, which we call so. By John Locke Bodies Qualities Ideas Patterns Secondary

The soul and body are joint-sharers in every thing they get: A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time; andif he dresses like a gentleman, every one of them stands presented to his imagination, genteelized along with him. By Laurence Sterne Dress Time Andif Gentleman Imagination

Beyond the subtle physical body, is the causal body, the part of your being that lives from one lifetime to another. By Frederick Lenz Body Subtle Physical Causal Part

Perhaps if we were consciously able to use our bodies as fluently and expressively as we use language, we would find the physical reaction to each successful picture to be as particular and unique as our verbal formulations. By Frank Gohlke Language Formulations Consciously Bodies Fluently

Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the world. It is the temple which houses the Pure Self within. By Adi Shankara Body Knowing Neglect Pure World

My work involves the physical manifestation of emotional reality. Thus, the invisible becomes visible; the normal, abnormal; and the familiar, unfamiliar. Ordinary life is an endless source of fascination to me in its ritualistic objects and behavior. By Sandy Skoglund Reality Work Involves Physical Manifestation

Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God. By Mahatma Gandhi Momentary Eternity God Existence Embodied

In these few minutes one gets an overwhelming impression of the absolute identity of Body and Mind, and the fact that our highest functions - consciousness and self - are not entities, self-sufficient, "above" the body, but neuropsychological constructs - processes - dependent on the continuity of bodily experience and its integration. By Oliver Sacks Body Mind Selfsufficient Processes Functions

But very often (too often, to my taste) I have been photographed and knew it. Now, once I feel myself observed by the lens, everything changes: I constitute myself in the process of "posing". I instantaneously make another body for myself, I transform myself in advance into an image. This transformation is an active one: I feel that the Photograph creates my body or mortifies it, according to its caprice (...). By Roland Barthes Taste Photographed Knew Feel Body

You must convince your readers that your characters are flesh and blood rather than words on dead skin, that their loves and hatreds and passions are as deep and present as the readers' own. Your task is to delight, to pleasure, to lift your reader to another sphere of being and then strand him there, floating above the earth and panting for more lines. By Bruce Holsinger Skin Convince Characters Flesh Blood

We do not "have" a body; rather, we "are" bodily. By Martin Heidegger Bodily Body

A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves. By Quintilian Imitation Great Part Art Consists

Throughout much of our lives, our association with the temporary has risen. This transitory body, a sack of bones and flesh, is considered erroneously as our true body and we have accepted this temporary condition as conclusive. By George Harrison Lives Risen Temporary Association Body

The reflection, the verisimilitude, of life that shines in the fleshly cells from the soul source is the only cause of man's attachment to his body; obviously he would not pay solicitous homage to a clod of clay. A human being falsely identifies himself with his physical form because the life currents from the soul are breath-conveyed into the flesh with such intense power that man mistakes the effect for a cause, and idolatrously imagines the body to have life of its own. By Paramahansa Yogananda Life Soul Man Body Reflection

art is the objectification of feeling By Herman Melville Art Feeling Objectification

When I thought of myself, of the feelings I had, of the things I thought I understood so well, I imagined myself somehow abstractly, because that other visual recollection was painful and unpleasant for me. No sooner would I call to mind my physical appearance than the finest, most lyrical, wonderful visions would vanish in an instant - so monstrous was its disparity with the intangible, glittering world that existed in my imagination. It seemed to me that there could be no greater contrast than that between my inner life and my outward appearance; sometimes I even imagined that I was trapped in someone else's strange, almost hateful body. By Gaito Gazdanov Thought Abstractly Feelings Things Understood

As for the body, it is solid and strong and curiousand full of detail: it wants to polish itself; it wants to love another body; it is the only vessel in the world that can hold, in a mix of power and sweetness: words, song, gesture, passion, ideas,ingenuity, devotion, merriment, vanity, and virtue. By Mary Oliver Body Words Song Gesture Passion

The challenge has always been to wrest emotion out of a [doll's] face that we think of as only having one emotion. It's moving a light, moving my camera; it's just this mental investment that I make, and suddenly, everything changes. Parenthetically, I have to say, I don't particularly like dolls, nor have I ever liked them. That's something I really wanted to get out there right away. By Laurie Simmons Emotion Face Challenge Wrest Moving

Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself. By Frida Kahlo Sensations Subjects States Mind Profound

By reshaping or decorating our outer selves, we express our inner sense of self: 'I like that' becomes 'I'm like that.' By Virginia Postrel Reshaping Decorating Outer Express Sense

Body experience ... is the centre of creation. By Barbara Hepworth Body Experience Creation Centre

The study of yoga makes me inspired. And then the teaching of yoga makes it that much more real. The sense that this practice and this tool helps other people be centered, be present, and helps them really [be] embodied and [have] a life. By Rodney Yee Yoga Inspired Makes Study Real

The authentic self is the soul made visible. By Sarah Ban Breathnach Visible Authentic Soul Made

And it isn't enough for us to identify with our selves, it is necessary to do so passionately, to the point of life and death. Because only in this way can we regard ourselves not merely as a variant of a human prototype but as a being with its own irreplaceable essence. By Milan Kundera Passionately Death Identify Point Life

What interests me when I'm writing is being able to crawl into a character's head and speak from his or her mouth. It's not pulling the strings on a marionette, it's not playing ventriloquist, and it's not mimicry. It's about inhabiting a character, and, at the same time, being totally unaware of what you've become. By Nathan Englander Mouth Character Interests Writing Crawl

To see the human condition in the old woman, in the child, in the model on the stand, in that particular human being, and to let the hand trace it, this act of adoration is called, 'drawing from life. By Frederick Franck Human Woman Child Stand Called

We are bodies, sometimes with dreams and always with desires. By Barbara Kingsolver Bodies Desires Dreams

I shut my eyes, and I force myself to feel myself. You never really think of what it's like to be in your body, but even with my eyes shut, I can feel the boundaries of my skin, real or not. Everything that's me is contained inside this body, and I feel it all. The heartbeat I cannot control. The mind that may not be mine. I am here, in this moment, in this body. All that I am - maybe not all that I ever was, but all that I currently am - is right here. By Beth Revis Body Feel Eyes Shut Force

The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe. By Lee Strasberg Describe Actor Creates Flesh Blood

Assimilation of the fruits of each past life takes place before the spirit descends to rebirth, and consequently, the character generated is fully formed and readily expressed in the subtle, mobile mind-stuff of the Region of Concrete Thought, where the archetype of the coming dense body is built. By Max Heindel Thought Region Concrete Assimilation Rebirth

Coming from Being, you will perceive another person's body and mind as just a screen, as it were, behind which you can feel their true reality, as you feel yours. So, when confronted with someone else's suffering or unconscious behavior, you stay present and in touch with Being and are thus able to look beyond the form and feel the other person's radiant and pure Being through your own. By Eckhart Tolle Feel Coming Screen Reality Person

Soul inhabits body that fits. By Toba Beta Soul Fits Inhabits Body

The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement. By Paramahansa Yogananda Ego Man Soul Nature Entanglement

There are aspects of writing that require you to image yourself in various roles and guises, to stand in the shoes of others, to 'act' on an inner stage. By James Luceno Act Guises Stage Aspects Writing

Believing himself to be unseen by other bathers, he gave himself up to being alone with his body. He wriggled his toes, breathed hard through his nose, twisted his brown moustache where some drops of water still clung, and looked himself critically all over. The scrutiny seemed to satisfy him, as well as it might. I, whose only acquaintance was with bodies and minds developing, was suddenly confronted by maturity in its most undeniable form; and I wondered, what must it feel like to be him, master of those limbs which have passed beyond the need of gym and playing field, and exist for their own beauty and strength? What can they do, I thought, to be conscious of themselves? By L.p. Hartley Believing Bathers Body Unseen Gave

We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life. By George Wald Body Fallen Love Mirror Thing

The simple, brief experience of imagining oneself as another transformed both self-perception and, through this transformation, behavior. The maxim "fake it till you make it" gains empirical support. By Cordelia Fine Behavior Simple Transformation Experience Imagining

When I'm working on my characters, that's something I pay a lot of attention to: how their body works, how they move, how they articulate. By Astrid Berges-Frisbey Characters Works Move Articulate Working

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests. By George Santayana Soul Interests Voice Body

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting. By Nicolas Cage Dancer Acting Mother Body Part

A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is stable, for the substance is a stream of energy going in at one end and out at the other. We are particularly and temporarily identifiable wiggles in a stream that enters us in the form of light, heat, air, water, milk, bread, fruit, beer, beef Stroganoff, caviar, and pate de foie gras. It goes out as gas and excrement - and also as semen, babies, talk, politics, commerce, war, poetry, and music. And philosophy. By Alan Watts Stream Event Whirlpool Stable Living