“I got into animals by drawing hair follicles. I liked drawing hair, and from that I got into feathers and fur, then into images of animals. The patterning is the same, but the proportions of the body change from one animal to the next. A lot of it is just geometry and consciousness.” BodyNextAnimalConsciousnessHairDrawingProportionFeathersGeometryFurBody Change Author:Kiki Smith
“A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou art all voice and nothing else.” LittlesArtBodyVoiceSeeingFeathersNightingales Author:Plutarch
“It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot. Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly - I kill where I please because it is all mine. There is no sophistry in my body: My manners are tearing off heads - The allotment of death.” WholeBodyFeetCreationProduceMinesPleaseMannersFeathersSophistryAllotments Author:Ted Hughes
“Swinburne was an absurd character. He was a bird of showy strut and plumage. One could not but admire his glorious feathers; but, as soon as he began to moult ... one saw how very little body there was underneath.” LittlesCharacterBodySawsBirdAdmireAbsurdGloriousFeathersShowy Author:Robert Wilson Lynd