Body Quote by Luca Pacioli

“If nature has composed the human body so that in its proportions the seperate individual elements answer to the total form, then the Ancients…

— Vitruvius

“This, dear Phaedrus, is the most important point: no geometry without the word. Without it, figures are accidents, and neither make manifest nor serve…

— Paul Valéry

Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve…

— Robert Genn

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally…

— Arne Jacobsen

It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of significance but the circumstance that antique…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.

— Henry David Thoreau

Those who were skillful in Anatomy among the Ancients, concluded from the outward and inward Make of an Human Body, that it was the…

— Joseph Addison

Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the reasons that…

— Johannes Kepler

If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty…

— Wyndham Lewis

Now the images and temples constructed by mechanics are made of inert matter, so that they too are inert, material, and profane. Even if…

— Clement of Alexandria

Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas…

— Jonathan Edwards

The design of a temple depends on symmetry, the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect.

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio