The more you look, the less you want to see

Si solum spectes hominis caput, Hectora credas: si stan tem videas, Astyanacta putes. If you regard the man’s head alone You would believe him Hector; If you saw him standing You would deem him Astyanax.

Martial, Epigrams, Book 9, CCXII
English translation by Walter C. A. Ker

常玉 (Cháng Yù), Reclining Nude, 1931. Credit: WikiArt.