Gestures Quotes

552 quotes by 444 authors

When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture. — Leila Josefowicz
It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or plot point that… — Leslie Jamison
There is a gesture he has, a motion, that always reminds me of a great batter leaning into a hit. He has a way of… — Gene Lees
It's tricky when you're doing a recording, because the only weapon you have is your voice and the delivery of that voice. You don't have… — Joyce DiDonato
When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today… — Natalia Vodianova
Gestures and facial expressions do indeed communicate, as anyone can prove by turning off the sound on a television set and asking watchers to characterize… — Peter Farb
As soon as I suspect a fine effect is being achieved by accident I lose interest. I am not interested...in unskilled labor. ...The scientific actor… — Minnie Maddern Fiske
... most of all the actor will love the boys and girls, the men and women, who sit in the cheapest seats, in the very… — Minnie Maddern Fiske
Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it. — Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
Television is likely to do more to revolutionize politics than sound broadcasting did. Political candidates may have to adopt new techniques to benefit from visual… — David Sarnoff
Without intention, all these postures, these breathing practices, meditations, and the like can become little more than ineffectual gestures. When animated by intention, however, the… — Donna Farhi
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
All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence. — Leonardo da Vinci
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

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