Human Form Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty.

  Sigmund Freud

  Development, Form, Humans

  Sigmund Freud, Philip Rieff (1997). “Sexuality and The Psychology of Love”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• There will always be those who want to make paintings of the human form with all its parts all where they should be, in spite of progress.

  Philip Pearlstein

  Humanity, Progress, Want

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• Although the Christian is thus free from all works, he ought in this liberty to empty himself, take upon himself the form of a servant, be made in the likeness of men, be found in human form, and to serve, help and in every way deal with his neighbor as he sees that God through Christ has dealt and still deals with him.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Men, Liberty

  Martin Luther (2011). “Martin Luther: Selections From His Writing”, p.75, Anchor

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• You are god. To be conscious of that not just from the point of view of the human form, to be endless and beginningless perfect being, is to be enlightened.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Views, Perfect

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• As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.

  Bayard Taylor

  Ascent, Olives, Deities

  Bayard Taylor (2015). “The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain”, p.67, The Floating Press

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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 bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment.

  Brock Yates

  Children, Moving, Icons

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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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• The soul's first adventure is the fight between two ideas: the wish to return to earth in a human form, and the desire to feel the freedom of having no form.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Adventure, Fighting, Ideas

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1969). “Self-realization Magazine”

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• The aliens on this planet are also attempting to clone or replicate the human form artificially. Their original form, being humanoid, cannot pass the field that was established around the Earth. But if they can clone or cybernetically change their forms, it may help their designs. This is why virtual reality, cybernetics, cloning, and nanotechnology are in vogue today.

  Michael Tsarion

  Reality, Eugenics, Design

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• To have a human form is a joyful thing.

  Zhuangzi

  Joy, Form, Humans

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• When you see deterioration in the skin or the hair, you are having problems with the subtle body. You're taking in too much bad energy, usually from people, or you're thinking too many negative thoughts. You are pulling an energy that is not suitable for the human form.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Hair, People

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• Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.

  Charles Perrault

  Queens, Son, Long

  The Brothers Grimm, Yei Theodora Ozaki, Lewis Carroll, Hans Christian Andersen, Alexander Afanasiev, J. Macgowan, Madame Gabrielle de Villeneuve, Joseph Jacobs, Andrew Lang, Charles Perrault, and many others “Classic Fairy Tales: Fairy Stories Every Child Should Know”, Slavamax BVBA

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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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• Transcending the cycle of death and rebirth is the real purpose of this life in human form.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Real, Purpose

  Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Amma (2014). “Awaken Children Vol. 6”, p.22, M A Center

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• We were not meant to mask ourselves before our fellow-beings, but to be, through our human forms, true and clear utterances of the spirit within. Since God gave us these bodies, they must have been given us as guides to Him and revealers of Him.

  Lucy Larcom

  Utterance, Body, Spirit

  Lucy Larcom (1892). “The Unseen Friend”

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• Human forms are perpetuated through sex, and sex also perpetuates human consciousness.

  Vanna Bonta

  Sex, Consciousness, Form

  Zero Gravity Interview (2006), as quoted in Laura S. Woodmansee "Sex in Space" (p. 75), August 1, 2006.

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• I do portraits. I usually do live models in a class environment, but I've been painting at home more. I really love the human form, and I love faces. I've tried to do landscapes a few times.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Home, Class, Portraits

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