Gesture Quotes

376 quotes by 304 authors

The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into… — Hermann Hesse
No gesture is too small when done with gratitude. — Oprah Winfrey
The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost of unending effort… — W. Somerset Maugham
What is dance? I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place,… — Ray Bolger
My art is just an effort to express the truth of my being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long years to find… — Isadora Duncan
Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind… — Doris Humphrey
Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master… — Elizabeth Bishop
I think the time is ripe for a return to the refinement of lifestyle that the pocket watch embodies. A personal pleasure that you know… — Richard Miller
If you have an idea, you have to move on it, to make a gesture. Drawing is an immediate way of articulating that idea -… — Jeff Koons
A period film, where you, for example, where you have a traditional wardrobes, you are bound to act a certain way. But in a modern… — Donnie Yen
I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates. — Oleg Cassini
The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid… — Henry Rollins
Each single gesture of art must be daring. One must not be concerned with the side-effects. — Toni Servillo
Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The smallest gesture can mean to much to those who may need a little lift in their lives. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Investments are a real partnership, with an expected return; donations are a gesture made as a result of ethical, religious, or political passions. — Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
I wish I were shyly, quietly intriguing, like Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, like someone French and fashionable who knows how to twirl her ladylike locks just… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual. — Shahzia Sikander
I am different because I have better schooling, better understanding of the line, gesture, how feet working, positions. They taught me modern things... and I… — Natalia Makarova
These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity. — Frederick Leboyer

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