Gestures Quote by Barbara Hepworth

What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.

— Marcel Marceau

The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition.

— Alexander Calder

The only kind of sublimity which a painter or sculptor should aim at is to express by certain proportions and positions of limbs and…

— Edmund Burke

“Emphasizing the body as art, these artists amplified the role of process over product and shifted from representation objects to presentational modes of action.”

— Kristine Stiles

A passion for the dramatic art is inherent in the nature of man.

— Anonymous

If we now seek the spiritual significance of the technique of Michelangelo we shall find that his sculpture expressed restless energy...

— Auguste Rodin

The sculptor represents the transition from one pose to another he indicates how insensibly the first glides into the second. In his work we…

— Auguste Rodin

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has…

— Plato

The dance, just as the performance of the actor, is kinesthetic art, art of the muscle sense. The awareness of tension and relaxation within…

— Rudolf Arnheim

The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing...…

— Doris Humphrey

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

What I strive most to achieve in art is to make you forget the material. The sculptor must... communicate whatever struck his sensibility, so…

— Medardo Rosso