Gesture Quotes

376 quotes by 304 authors

The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. — Annie Dillard
The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The… — William Faulkner
Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,… — William Cowper
Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The forgotten gesture, the… — Rainer Maria Rilke
They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Expression is not a matter of passion mirrored on the human face or revealed by a violent gesture. When I paint a picture, its every… — Henri Matisse
Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character. — Charles Baudelaire
The painting is always conceived as the linear record of a rhythmic gesture: it is a graph of a dance executed by the hand. Not… — Roger Fry
Whenever I go to bars in London, people send me over Cosmopolitans. It's a very sweet gesture, but I don't like them, so they just… — Kim Cattrall
So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, 'He's… — Bobby Knight
When I make my drawings... the path traced by my pencil on the sheet of paper is, to some extent, analogous to the gesture of… — Alberto Giacometti
The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and the… — Barbara Hepworth
You should draw not what the thing looks like, not even what it is, but what it is doing... Gesture has no precise edges, no… — Kimon Nicolaides
While you are still beautiful and life still woos, it is such a fine gesture of disdainful pride to jilt it. — Eugene O'Neill
The real relatedness between two people is experienced in the small tasks they do together: the quiet conversation when the day's upheavels are at rest,… — Robert A. Johnson
My work is not so overtly about movement. My horses' gestures are really quite quiet, because real horses move so much better than I could… — Deborah Butterfield
All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A… — Albert Camus
How is the mind which functions on knowledge how is the brain which is recording all the time to end, to see the importance of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a… — John Kenneth Galbraith
As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice. — Jennifer Granholm

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