Human Form Quotes

• I chose faces and figures as my subject matter simply due to the fact that the human form is already beautiful art.

  Frank Bruno

  Beautiful, Sports, Art

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• No more was seen the human form divine.

  Alexander Pope

  Divine, Form, Humans

  Alexander Pope (1796). “The Beauties of Pope, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages: Selected from the Works of that Admired Author : as Well as from His Translation of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, &c”, p.83

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• The construction of the human figure, its tremendous variety of balance, of size, of rhythm, all those things make the human form much more difficult to get right in a drawing than anything else.

  Henry Moore

  Drawing, Humanity, Balance

  Andrew Causey, Henry Moore (2010). “The Drawings of Henry Moore”, Lund Humphries Pub Limited

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• On previous occasions when God incarnated on earth, the bliss of recognising Him in the incarnation was vouchsafed only after the physical embodiment had left the world, in spite of plenty of evidences of His Grace. But, ponder a moment on this Sathya Sai Manifestation; in this age of rampant materialism, aggressive disbelief and irreverence, what is it that brings to It the adoration of millions from all over the world? You will be convinced that the basic reason for this is the fact that this is the Supra-worldly Divinity in Human Form.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Grace, Age, Irreverence

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• To have a human form is a joyful thing.

  Zhuangzi

  Joy, Form, Humans

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• In front of the model I work with the same will to reproduce truth as if I were making a portrait. I do not correct nature, I incorporate myself into it; it directs me. I can only work with a model. The sight of human forms nourishes and comforts me.

  Auguste Rodin

  Sight, Portraits, Comfort

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• The feat of superbly imitating a muscle, as Michelangelo did, or a face, as Raphael did, created neither progress nor a hierarchy in art. Because these artists of the sixteenth century imitated human forms, they were not superior to the artists of the high periods of Egyptian, Chaldean, Indochinese, Roman, and Gothic art who interpreted and stylized form but did not imitate it.

  Fernand Leger

  Art, Progress, Faces

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• We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Age, Landscape

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• For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

  William Blake

  Love, Jealousy, Peace

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) 'The Divine Image'

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• God appears, and God is Light, to those poor souls who dwell in Night; but does a Human Form display to those who dwell in realms of Day.

  William Blake

  Night, Light, Soul

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 129

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• Has the word propitiation any place in your Christianity?  In the faith of the New Testament it is central.  The love of God, the taking of human form by the Son, the meaning of the cross, Christ's heavenly intercession, the way of salvation-all are to be explained in terms of itand any explanation from which the thought of propitiation is missing will be incomplete, and indeed actually misleading, by New Testament standards

  J. I. Packer

  Son, Missing, Way

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• How can any person justify an aesthetic that reduces a woman or child to an emaciated skeleton? Is it art? Surely fashion's aesthetic should enhance and beautify the human form, not destroy it.

  Coco Rocha

  Fashion, Art, Children

  "Coco Rocha Responds To ‘Fat’ Flap: This Is A Moral Matter", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2010.

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• I have seen a thousand times that Angels are human form, or men, for I have conversed with them as man to man, sometimes with one alone, sometimes with many in company.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Angel, Men, Sometimes

  Emanuel Swedenborg, John Webster HANCOCK, Thomas HARTLEY (Rector of Winwick, Northamptonshire.) (1850). “Concerning Heaven and its Wonders, and concerning Hell; being a relation of things heard and seen. Translated from the Latin [by J. W. Hancock; revised by J. Clowes. With the “preface to the first English edition” of this work, by T. Hartley].”, p.33

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• What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.

  Beatrix Potter

  Beautiful, Perfect, Divine

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• What sort of attractions do you think lured our coreligionists out of the ghetto and into the mainstream of European culture? Was it the wit of Molière, or the ingenious stage mechanisms of Pixérécourt? Or was it simply the opportunity to cast an eye, without shame, upon the living, unclad human form?

  Ben Katchor

  Ghetto, Eye, Opportunity

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• It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.

  Prince Andrew

  Ideas, People, Complicated

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wouldn't exactly call it 'Intelligent', but somebody has to be behind designing the human form other than just biological necessity. Why else would women have arms? Or feet? Or mouths?

  Zach Braff

  Intelligent, Feet, Design

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• I have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike through the sage and the sinner, the virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.

  Ramakrishna

  People, Different, Saint

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• I believe that we are put here in human form to decipher the hieroglyphs of love and suffering. And, there is no degree of love or intensity of feeling that does not bring with it the possibility of a crippling hurt. But, it is a duty to take that risk and love without reserve or defense.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Hurt, Believe, Feelings

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• For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.

  Josiah Royce

  Individuality, Consciousness, Individualism

  Josiah Royce (1952). “The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown”

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• Straight lines don't exist in the human form and are extremely rare in nature, so the human touch in the logo is that all the lines and forms have at least a slight curve.

  Marissa Mayer

  Technology, Curves, Lines

  "Yahoo rolls out its new logo" by Heather Kelly, www.cnn.com. September 6, 2013.

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• Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form.

  Mark Frost

  Suffering, Tariffs, Spirit

  Mark Frost (2013). “The List of 7”, p.167, Open Road Media

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• Don't be afraid. Human birth is full of suffering and one has to endure everything patiently, taking the Name of God. None, not even God in human form can escape the sufferings of the body and mind.

  Sarada Devi

  Names, Mind, Suffering

  "Thus Spake the Holy Mother" by Sarada Devi, (pp. 72-73), 1985.

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• This is a human form in which every Divine entity, every Divine principle, that is to say, all the names and forms ascribed by man to God, are manifest... You are very fortunate that you have the chance to experiences the bliss of the vision of the form, which is the form of all gods, now, in this life itself.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Men, Names, Vision

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Mar 28, 2012

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