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“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.”

Ifs Feels Art Body Hands Seems Eye Together Artist Stuff Art Is Gestures Totality

Author:Frank Stella

“My work is not so overtly about movement. My horses' gestures are really quite quiet, because real horses move so much better than I could pretend to make things move. For the pieces I make, the gesture is really more within the body, it's like an internalized gesture, which is more about the content, the state of mind or of being at a given instant. And so it's more like a painting...the gesture and the movement is all pretty much contained within the body.”

Mind Real States Body Moving Given Pieces Movement Painting Quiet Horse Instant State Of Mind Gestures

Author:Deborah Butterfield

“Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front of the canvas. Paint is a cast made of the painter's movements, a portrait of the painter's body and thoughts.”

Made Body Records Fronts Movement Painting Paint Casts Painter Sat Delicate Gestures Canvas Portraits Tense

Book:What Painting Is

Source: What Painting Is

“Let us ask... how things work at the level of on-going subjugation, at the level of those continuous and uninterrupted processes which subject our bodies, govern our gestures, dictate our behaviors, etc... we should try to discover how it is that subjects are gradually, progressively, really and materially constituted through a multiplicity of organisms, forces, energies, materials, desires, thoughts, etc. We should try to grasp subjection in its material instance as a constitution of subjects.”

Should Trying Body Desire Asks Energy Force Process Levels Power Subjects Materials Behavior Constitution Instance Etc Gestures Organisms Multiplicity Subjection Subjugation

Author:Michel Foucault

“When you're on the street, and, as you're walking along, a woman turns the corner going away from you, and for an instant you have a glimpse of the side of her face, of the gesture of her shoulder, the shape of her body, and you are committed... You are in love for an instant, or your senses are rocked for an instant. That person then disappears and is lost to you forever.”

Persons Body Faces Turns Lost Sides Forever Streets Walking Shapes Committed Corners Disappear Senses Shoulders Instant Going Away Gestures Glimpse Away From You

Author:Joel Meyerowitz

“The evening was very professionally organized, and most of the people were exceptionally polite, although it did make me a little nervous when one church official told me after the debate when a big crowd of people surrounded me that he had assigned me a body guard "just in case." Just in case what? I thought Christians were suppose to be exceptionally tolerant. Well, in any case, I guess I was grateful for the gesture, "just in case."”

People Wells Littles Body Bigs Christian Church Cases Atheism Grateful Crowds Debate Nervous Evening Officials Organized Gestures Polite

Author:Michael Shermer

“The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual - as we think so will we act.”

Thinking Body Action Individual Gestures Expressive

Author:Martha Graham