Embodied Experience Quotes

Most people aren't in touch with their body and tend to live in their thoughts.

The body becomes the carrier for the work. It's not really about the physical body; it really becomes the apparatus that carries and moves the work. I don't really consider the body as much; I look at it as a tool.

I think all my work's been about how do women get back into our bodies; how do men get back. We're all disassociated.

You can do yoga and be thinking about going shopping. The goal is kind of like meditation, is to be totally present in your body in the moment. That's when the most profound effects of yoga can happen. That's what I urge people to try to do. It's very important to be in your body.

The users space is lived - not represented or conceived.

I am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots reunite me to the putrefaction of life.

Without awareness of bodily feeling and attitude, a person becomes split into a disembodied spirit and a disenchanted body.

When we're awake in our bodies and sense, the world comes alive. Wisdom, creativity, and love are discovered as we relax and awaken through our bodies.

You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of the body results in dance and you become a dancer, not just a human being.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

The body's like a huge ear. It's as simple as that.

The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that.

You become things, you become an atmosphere, and if you become it, which means you incorporate it within you, you can also give it back. You can put this feeling into a picture. A painter can do it. And a musician can do it and I think a photographer can do that too and that I would call the dreaming with open eyes.

My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.

My kingdom for a more embodied body

I can actually feel the interior body of a dancer. I have the ability to capture a split second... I want you to be hit with whatever the essence is of this sculpture.

For art to be reality, the whole sensuous being must be caught up in the experience.

I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bodily thing. It literally has to earn its way through my hand.

I had the landscape in my arms as I painted it. I had the landscape in my mind and shoulder and wrist.

I know my body better than anything, better than anybody.

I like to walk, touch living Mother Earth—bare feet best, and thrill every step. Used to envy happy reptiles that had advantage of so much body in contact with earth, bosom to bosom. [We] live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.

We do not "have" a body; rather, we "are" bodily.

When my main character in 'Heat' climbs the tower, the highest diving platform, hoping to resume competitive diving after an injury, I am there with her, sensing the cold grit under her instep. The details are what matter - they are the experience.

At every stage of spiritual growth, the greatest ally you have is your body.

We as women know that there are no disembodied processes; that all history originates in human flesh; that all oppression is inflicted by the body of one against the body of another; that all social change is built on the bone and muscle, and out of the flesh and blood, of human creators.