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Quote by Edward T. Hall

“The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer”

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Edward T. Hall, an American anthropologist, was born on May 16, 1914, and passed away on July 20, 2009. He is renowned for his theories on intercultural communication and his research on nonverbal communication. more

“Under the continual contact with the pebbles my feet have become hardened and used to the ground. My body, almost constantly nude, no longer suffers from the sun. Civilization is falling from me little by little. I am beginning to think simply, to feel only very little hatred for my neighbor - rather, to love him.”

Thinking Feels Littles Body Used Suffering Fall Sun Feet Civilization Hatred Neighbor Contact Clothings Pebbles Hardened

Book:Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal

Source: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal

“At pains to define liberty, that most resolute of indefinables, our minds fall back on spatial images; on birds, sailboats, and mountains; the untethered balloon, the blue sky, the nude figure.”

Mind Pain Fall Liberty Sky Figures Mountain Bird Blue Clothings Balloons Fall Back Blue Sky Resolute Spatial Sailboat

Book:Time and the Art of Living

Source: Time and the Art of Living

“Truth is, most of us contain a splashing, giggling, squealing child who knows without thinking that bare skin and water go together as wings go with air, roots with earth, and the phoenix with incendiary sun. And innocence belongs to us as it did to ancient Greek athletes, who never wore clothes for their footraces or boxing matches but rather oiled themselves until their nude bodies glistened in the sunlight.”

“The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer has forgotten it, who should remember it, as the instrument of [the dance] art is the human body itself.”

Should Humans Art Body Remember Poet Truth Is Art Is Instruments Forgotten Painter Dancer Clothings Human Body Sculptors

Book:The Dance

Source: The Dance

“The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about to put her clothes back on.”

Ifs Giving Ideas Clothes Intellectual Painter Clothings

Author:Odilon Redon

“To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude. (The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.”

Use Body Order Objects Sight Oneself Naked Clothings Display Disguise Nudity

Author:John Berger

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