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"The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body."
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"Treat your body good, because your body is your boat, it is your horse, it is your car, your wings, your every possible vehicle to take you to every possible place!"
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"Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower."
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"Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem.Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash."
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"Everything was very specific and very fitted. I can't tell you what we went through for this job in regards to full body scans and the prosthetic process that you go through and all that kind of stuff, but everything was done very specifically to fit you perfectly."
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"Tape is wonderful at preserving evidence - fingerprints, hairs, fibers. Tape preserves this, especially on the sticky side, even if the body's been out there for a year."
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"To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body. Both go together, they can't be separated."
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"There is a large body of abolitionists in Clinton and Clark Counties in this state, and in Wayne County Indiana, that would undoubtedly support such a store, but whether their support would be sufficient, I am unable to say."
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"Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best."
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"What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world."
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"As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does."
Work
"I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong."
Art
"There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so."
Truth
"A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure."
Being
"I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them."
People
"Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen."
Will
"When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't."
Body
"I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do."
Art
"A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art."
Life
"The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn."
Emotional
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