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“In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.”

World Beauty Figures Fine Monstrosity

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul, when the beauty of the face speaks out the modesty and humility of the mind, and the justness of the proportion raises our thoughts up to the heart and wisdom of the great Creator, something may be allowed it,--and something to the embellishments which set it off; and yet, when the whole apology is read, it will be found at last that beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.”

Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author

“The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.”

“I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.”

“I keep telling myself that I'm a human being, an imperfect human being who's not made to look like a doll, and that who I am as a person is more important than whether at that moment I have a nice figure.”

Inspirational Humans Looks Persons Made Important Moments Human Beings Beauty Nice Self Esteem Figures Who I Am That Moment Imperfect Body Image Dolls Eating Disorder Body Confidence

Author:Emma Watson

“Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that”

Littles Light Seems Past Beauty Figures Elements Favors Swim Recollection Over The Past Mellow

Book:Collected essays

Source: Collected essays

“I remember trying not to disrupt everyone else in the room, fumbling around trying to figure out how to use the medium with a beautiful model disrobed in front of me.”

Trying Use Beautiful Remember Rooms Beauty Fronts Figures Models Mediums

Author:Don Watson

“Painting figures is the hardest, certainly the most taxing genre, and you have to be the most on your game. If you have significant drawing problems, the figure will fall apart and it will read wrong emotionally.”

Ifs Problem Fall Games Beauty Figures Painting Drawing Significant Hardest Genre Falling Apart

Author:Jacob Collins

“O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden painter from the desire to make your nude figures reveal all.”

Desire Causes Beauty Figures Bones Painter Muscles Anatomy Prominence

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“When you draw a nude, sketch the whole figure and nicely fit the members to it and to each other. Even though you may only finish one portion of the drawing, just make certain that all the parts hang together, so that the study will be useful to you in the future.”

May Whole Together Certain Beauty Study Figures Fit Members Draws Drawing Portions

Book:Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists

Source: Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists

“I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms.”

Action Form Beauty Figures Bears Shapes Logic Ugly Inward Elephants Toads

Book:Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers

Source: Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers