Medieval art portrays the Savior as a feeble, sickly appearing waif. Great artists have tried to emulate his meekness with pathetic representations. In spite of Isaiah's words, this image has been inaccurate and unfortunate.
Joseph Fielding Smith
"In appearance he was like men; and so it is expressed here by the prophet that he had no form or comeliness, that is, he was not so distinctive, so different from others that people would recognize him as the son of God. He appeared as a mortal man." (Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 1, p. 23)
Victor L. Brown
"It is particularly important that young men holding his priesthood become intimately acquainted with him in order to know and to understand him. Unfortunately, artists and others have pictured him as effeminate, soft, and sad. If we analyze his life at all, we see a person who was masculine, strong, vigorous, interested in all that was going on about him, surely loving and kind, but at the same time one who could exhibit righteous anger. If this were not true, how could he have caused rough fishermen to follow him with just one sentence: 'Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men'? (Matt. 4:19.) He spent his youth and young adulthood as a carpenter, a trade requiring strength and skill. Would he have dared drive the money changers from the temple had he not been a man of great strength and courage?" (Conference Reports, Oct. 1970, p. 124)