#gesture

Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you. ↗

— Alfred E. Smith

#believe #gestures #him #instruct #laugh

No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it. ↗

— Frank Stella

#art #artist #best #body #complete

If you're cast right you can actually just let yourself go because all your gestures will be right, all your intonations will be right because you just somewhere understand who this person is. ↗

— Susan Sullivan

#because #cast #gestures #go #just

Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness. ↗

— Helen Hayes

#cannot #choose #completely #consequently #devoid

...I see you as series of gestures, a palette of colors -all these tiny tiles pixelate, and then coalesce... into the idea of you... ↗

— John Geddes

#love-quotes #poetry-quotes #thoughts-of-you #love

I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#dirty #every #every day #every night #gestures

Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe. ↗

— Ruth St. Denis

#convey #dance #divine #future #gestures

So what if I'm smokin' weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It's not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It's a peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that. ↗

— Snoop Dogg

#doing #gesture #gotta #i #killing

Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious! ↗

— David Eddings

#certain #conscience #gesture #i #like

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#art #even #gesture #grasp #greater