“artists try to say things that can't be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling; a taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.” TryingSaidFeelingsArtistLeftKnowingColorSweetTasteLongingPainfulFrustrationCaptureFragileGestures Author:Alan Alda
“The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to know the physics of color to bring forward a landscape. The eye and hand and ear know what they need to know. Some of us want to know more, because knowing pleases.” KnowsWantNeedsWritingHandsEyeNamesAbilityKnowingColorPleaseEarsPhysicsPainterLandscapeGesturesRhetoric Author:Jane Hirshfield
“I cannot find any patience for those people who believe that you start writing when you sit down at your desk and pick up your pen and finish writing when you put down your pen again; a writer is always writing, seeing everything through a thin mist of words, fitting swift little descriptions to everything he sees, always noticing. Just as I believe that a painter cannot sit down to his morning coffee without noticing what color it is, so a writer cannot see an odd little gesture without putting a verbal description to it, and ought never to let a moment go by undescribed.” PeopleWritingBelieveLittlesMomentsI BelieveMorningSeeingColorOughtPicksCoffeePainterOddDescriptionPensGesturesDesksMistFittingNoticingMorning Coffee Author:Shirley Jackson
“For one thing, I want gesture-any kind of gesture, all kinds of gesture-gentle or brutal, joyous or tragic; the gesture of space soaring, sinking, streaming, whirling; the gestures of light flowing or spurting through color. I see everything as possessing or possessed by gesture. I've often thought of my paintings as having an axis around which everything revolves.” WantKindLightSpaceOne ThingColorPaintingAll KindsGentleTragicGesturesPossessedBrutalSoarJoyousPossessingSinkingAxesStreaming Author:Elaine de Kooning
“Light gesture and color of the key compliments of any photograph. Light and color are obvious, but it is just her that is the most important. There is gesture in everything. It's up to you to find a gesture that is most telling.” ImportantLightColorKeysPhotographObviousComplimentGesturesUp To YouLight And Color Author:Jay Maisel
“These commonplace categories - wife, mother, housewife, teacher - are in fact teleological referents. They gesture to profound states of being that animate, absorb and saturate the subject, like indelible dyes spilled repeatedly over a plain fabric. No matter if the fabric is sturdy or delicate, translucent or opaque, those dyes will stain. They will color the days and years and life.” IfsYearsMatterStatesFactsMotherTeacherWifeSubjectsColorProfoundCategoriesDelicateGesturesFabricCommonplaceStainsHousewifeSturdyIndelibleOpaqueWife Mother Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim