“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.” ―Ludwig Wittgenstein

A body of art is illuminated from the inside, or the outside is just another pretty hide.

“It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.”

―Epictetus

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A body of art could be a beautifully bound volume of blank pages, or a masterwork on an old jug.

 “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,

—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

―John Keats

A Pacemaker regulates a body’s pulse, but lends the heart a robot’s soul. Something else activates a body’s impulse to light up the room.

“I speak two languages, Body and English.”

―Mae West

The ineffable something that illuminates a body of art—for which sacred words can sound profane, and vice versa—acts like a noble gas emitting lumens within a human vessel, ignited by a theopoetic spark.

“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”

―José Saramago