#gesture

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

#audience #demanding #effort #gesture #i

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

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

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

#bark #gestures #hear #hearing #listen

These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity. ↗

— Frederick Leboyer

#calamity #gesture #hands #head #implore

And I think you understand a little bit more why she falls for him. In a way, watching the French do anything is a little more fun because their gestures are different. And in that way, they make everything interesting. ↗

— Adrian Lyne

#because #bit #different #everything #falls

I find that the middle finger is the universal signal of communication. I often use it to wave hello, point at someone, and convey my thoughts to deaf people. I used to use it to shake hands, but it kept getting broken. ↗

— Bauvard

#communicating #fingers #funny #gestures #hand-signals

Thy base is so trivial, so passing a thing, let us try to support it by words, and so prolong its image and its play. ↗

— Pierre de Boudeïlle

#love #love