Frank Delaney Quotes

The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.

The face is the soul of the body.

We look so much on color that we forget about the soul.

The eyes are the mirror of the soul and reflect everything that seems to be hidden; and like a mirror, they also reflect the person looking into them.

Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.

The fear of God reigning in the heart is the beauty of the soul.

Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.

I do not care about my own appearance, but I would hope that people could see into my soul, and that is presented better in these photographs than in others. (On his self-portraits)

You need not attempt to shake off or to banter off Romance. It is an evil you will never get rid of to the end of your days. It is a part of yourself ... of your soul. Age will only mellow it a little, and give it a holier tone.

You don't know what beauty is. You use the word, certainly, but your word is empty. Beauty is known only by one who has known the inner beauty, one who has known the inner flower opening. Then whenever a flower is seen, it reminds you of your inner beauty.

Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.

The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony.

Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature

I am convinced that any photographic attempt to show the complete man is nonsense. We can only show, as best we can, what the outer man reveals. The inner man is seldom revealed to anyone, sometimes not even the man himself.

Music is the can-opener of the soul.

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.

There is a spark of good in everybody, no matter how deeply it may be buried. It is the real you.

This is where you can find your soul if you dare. Where you can touch that part of you that you've never dared look at before. Do not come here and ask me to show you how to draw a face. Ask me to help you find the wind.

Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.

The eyes are the windows to the soul

The eyes mirror the heart of a person. An entire life can be seen through them. Love, sorrow, deceit, pain. If you look closely, it’s all there.

The unfolding of the bare human soul...that is what interests me.