Motion Quotes

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The sense of motion in painting and sculpture has long been considered as one of the primary elements of the composition. — Alexander Calder
Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It… — Alexander Calder
But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world maintains that no… — Knut Hamsun
To one degree or another we all struggle with selfishness. Since it is so common, why worry about selfishness anyway? Because selfishness is really self-destruction… — Neal A. Maxwell
Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason. — Rick Warren
The violent reaction on the recent development of modern physics can only be understood when one realises that here the foundations of physics have started… — Werner Heisenberg
The Jews are one of the principle forces attempting to lead the U.S. into the war. The Jews greatest danger to this country lies in… — Charles Lindbergh
A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image. For my own work, when a picture looks labored and… — Helen Frankenthaler
When you train a horse on a daily basis, you're a part of the horse's movement, you're a part of his motion. Everything that the… — Karen O
As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation. — John Smith
The experience of oppressed people is that the living of oneâ€™s life is confined and shaped by forces and barriers which are not accidental or… — Marilyn Frye
Evidence in support of general relativity came quickly. Astronomers had long known that Mercuryâ€™s orbital motion around the sun deviated slightly from what Newtonâ€™s mathematics… — Brian Greene
Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion. — Antoine Lavoisier
Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back againâ€¦, only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth. — Asger Jorn
When you quickly get into motion, a problem becomes an opportunity for growth. — Mike D
Motion Before Motivation: It means you get started FIRST, then FEEL the Inspiration to keep going. — Mike D
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced… — A. R. Ammons
The sun comes up just about as often as it goes down, in the long run, but this doesn't make its motion random. — Donald Knuth
The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity. — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact by head or… — William H. Gass

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