Body Quote by R. D. Laing

The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.

— George Lakoff

Metaphor is embodied in language.

— Dennis Potter

The expressive body is not literal; it's very primal, and that's what I feel when I make the best of my work. It's coming…

— Michael Leunig

He is the intermediary between us, his audience, the living, and they, the dolls, the undead, who cannot live at all and yet who…

— Angela Carter

Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty,…

— Nikola Tesla

“But then, even in the most significant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which…

— Marcel Proust

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

— Robert Henri

As in this body, there are for the embodied one childhood, youth, old age, even so is there the taking on of another body.

— The Dhammapada

The entire repertoire of our life experiences can be accessed and activated from the body in movement …every part and function of the body…

— Daria Halprin

It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.

— Thomas Carlyle

“Perhaps if we were consciously able to use our bodies as fluently and expressively as we use language, we would find the physical reaction…

— Frank Gohlke