“When we talk about violence, we're talking about the destruction of the human body, and I don't lose sight of that. In general, my filmmaking is fairly body-oriented, because what you're photographing is people, bodies.” PeopleHumansBodyLosesTalkingViolenceDestructionSightAbstractFilmmakingHuman Body Author:David Cronenberg
“The body should not just be something you see. It's also the inside of it. It's frightening and abstract and much more than pretty or not pretty. The shape of it is boring.” ShouldBodyShapesBoringAbstractFrighteningNot Pretty Author:Jenny Hval
“It is the fertile hallucination that makes paint so compelling. Paint is like the numerologist's numbers, always counting but never adding up, always speaking but never saying anything rational, always playing at being abstract but never leaving the clotted body.” PlayBodyNumbersPaintLeavingRationalAbstractCompellingCountingFertileHallucinations Book:What Painting Is Source: What Painting Is
“The corporeal element in man is a large screen and partition that prevents him from perfectly perceiving abstract ideals; this would be the case even if the corporeal element were as pure and superior as the substance of the spheres ; how much more must this be the case with our dark and opaque body. However great the exertion of our mind may be to comprehend the Divine Being or any of the ideals, we find a screen and partition between God and us.” IfsMenMindMayBodyWould BeDarkCasesDivinePureElementsIdealsScreensSuperiorsSubstanceAbstractSpheresExertionPartitionOpaque Book:The Guide for the Perplexed Source: The Guide for the Perplexed
“Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts- it is the most abstract, the most perfect, the most pure- and the most sensual. I listen with my body and it is my body that aches in response to the passion and pathos embodied in this music.” ArtBodyPassionPerfectAliveWonderfulPureMusic IsResponseSensualAbstractAchePathos Book:Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963