#gesture

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Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.


Milan Kundera


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Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.


Virginia Satir


#action #child #every #expression #facial

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.


Frank Stella


#against #become #best #gestures #had

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.


Norman Thomas


#flag #gesture #symbolic #want #wash

For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.


Roland Barthes


#artiste #better #fine #gesture #long

The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy.


George Leigh Mallory


#highest #isolated #lord #magnificence #make

They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us manage, loving through expressions and gestures and the palm set softly upon the bruise at the necessary moment. Lovers by inclination rather than by lust. Lovers, that is, by love.


Gregory Maguire


#gestures #love #lovers #lust #love

You never know, until it happens, what you will owe the dead.


Zadie Smith


#dying #gesture #death

The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the world changes: a counter pushed across a table, a pen stroke that alters the force of a phrase, a woman's sigh as she passes and leaves on the air a trail of orange flower or rose water; her hand pulling close the bed curtain, the discreet sigh of flesh against flesh.


Hilary Mantel


#gestures #history #power #subtlety #tudors

Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things. Their language has been lost. But not the gestures.


Vera Nazarian


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