Gestures Quotes

• I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain ending - an art (and a politics) in which optimism is kept in check, and nihilism at bay.

  

  William Kentridge
  • Political
  • Uncertain
  • Nihilism

• It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an interruption of the audience on to the stage, and all our carefully planned gesture mean nothing, or mean too much.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Future
  • Mean

• I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Like
  • Historical
  • Novels

• I believe that a small action or a subtle gesture in life can change many, many things.

  

  Gabriel Orozco
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Small

• Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them into right and good arguments-just as a man in a bowling alley, after he has let go of the ball, still tries to direct it with gestures.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Direct
  • Arguments
  • Some People

• I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Drama
  • Artists
  • Dramatic

• There are some gestures, of course, that you can only interpret one way, but no one has ever seen those kinds of gestures directed by Obama at me or by me at Obama, and I hope that never happens. Everything else is fantasy.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Kind
  • Fantasy
  • Syria

• We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Mind
  • Feeling
  • Feelings

• I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Think
  • Hit
  • Gestures

• In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War and Peace.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • War
  • Peace
  • Single

• I'm attracted to male gestures and sexuality.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Sexuality
  • MAle
  • Gestures

• There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away.

  

  Rachel Simmons
  • Bullying
  • Gestures

• We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Gestures
  • Applause
  • Pulse

• When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Men
  • Women
  • Romantic

• I think it's important to do a good job and not to feel that you've got to make grand gestures, but just to get on and deliver.

  

  Theresa May
  • Important
  • Job
  • Deliver

• And always the animals from each trip you bring back a gaze a pose a gesture that points to the truest of humanity better than images of humanity itself

  

  Chris Marker
  • Humanity
  • Animal
  • Truest

• somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Experience
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the striving will, the look, the walk, the proportions of the body, the sound of the voice, the ease of the gestures. It is not at all necessary to be handsome or to be pretty; all that is needful is charm.

  

  Sarah Bernhardt
  • Body
  • Voice
  • Look

• The so-called new Russian man is characterized mainly by his complete exhaustion. You may find yourself wondering if he has the strength to enjoy his new-found freedom. He is like a long-distance runner who, on reaching the finishing line, is incapable even of raising his hands in a gesture of victory.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • Wonder
  • Enjoy
  • Victory

• Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Hollywood
  • Loves
  • Gestures

• All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Dance
  • Dancing
  • Gestures

• I was hittin' him with body punches and I hurt him. Actually he was cryin' in there, makin' woman gestures like.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Hurt
  • Gestures
  • Punches

• The simplest of simplest things makes me happy. I love small gestures and nature in life.

  

  Erica Fernandes
  • Nature
  • Happy Life
  • Simple Things

• I'll be honest, I felt an urge to squeeze him like a kitten and that led to the gesture I made. There was nothing behind it really.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Honest
  • Behinds
  • Hilarious

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