Best expression & movement Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art.”

May Mean Art Feelings Form Sound Lines Movement Color Expression Activity Oneself Evoke

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Things should all be moving toward the expression of a great idea.”

Should Ideas Moving Movement Expression Great Idea

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“A horizontal or vertical line lacks energy, compared with one that deviates from either. The difference between these graphic expressions is the difference between movement and repose.”

Energy Differences Lines Movement Expression Graphic Repose Vertical Horizontal Deviate

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“When a man makes a poem, makes it, mind you, he takes words as he finds them interrelated about him and composes them - without distortion which would mar their exact significances - into an intense expression of his perceptions and ardors that they may constitute a revelation in the speech that he uses. It isn't what he says that counts as a work of art, it's what he makes, with such intensity of perception that it lives with an intrinsic movement of its own to verify its authenticity.”

Source: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962

“There is a tendency under capitalism system to reduce everything to a kind of commodity fetish, and this order tends to promote extremely conventional and uniform expressions of gender and sexuality in order to promote certain products and lifestyle choices that are commercialized. This necessarily entails a capitulation to heteronormativity, or in the case of the new gay movement, a "homonormativity" that doesn't stray far from the heterosexual paradigm. Anyone who questions these normative values and conventions is subject to disapproval, hostility, or even violence.”

“For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.”

Mind Enough Movement Expression Needed Purity Intensity

Author:Rudolf Nureyev

“Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result.”

Ifs Ideas Belief Energy Differences Justice Results Opinion Movement Expression Birth Offers Enthusiasm Speakers Incitement

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“There's a very basic human, non-verbal aspect to our need to make music and use it as part of our human expression. It doesn't have to do with body movements, it doesn't have to do with articulation of a language, but with something spiritual.”

Needs Humans Use Body Spiritual Language Movement Expression Aspect Articulation Body Movement

Author:John Towner Williams

“Much more than trying to focus on the battlefield of the war, it was the central place that German doctors occupied within Nazism, the omnipotent and insane idea of wanting to generically modify an entire nation. This idea was not on the outskirts of Nazi ideology, it was the heart of movement, that's what intrigued me. Mengele is the most extreme expression of this idea.”

Trying Heart Ideas War Nations Focus Movement Expression Doctors Extremes Insane Ideology Nazi Battlefields Intrigued Nazism Omnipotent

Author:Lucia Puenzo

“Well to me the most interesting things can be an actor's facial expression, a gesture, the movement of a body - all those things that we are saying to each other in-between the words.”

Wells Body Actors Interesting Movement Expression Gestures Most Interesting Interesting Things Facial Facial Expression

Author:Julia Loktev

“Sign is a live, contemporaneous, visual-gestural language and consists of hand shapes, hand positioning, facial expressions, and body movements. Simply put, it is for me the most beautiful, immediate, and expressive of languages, because it incorporates the entire human body.”

Humans Body Hands Beautiful Language Movement Expression Shapes Visuals Human Body Expressive Facial Facial Expression Body Movement

Book:Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love

Source: Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love

“Every child has a right to know how to achieve control of his body in order that he may use it to the limit of his ability for the expression of his own reactions to life. Even if he can never carry his efforts far enough to realize dance in its highest forms, he may experience the sheer joy of the rhythmic sense of free, controlled, and expressive movement, and through this know an addition to life to which every human being is entitled.”

“I love physical movement. Dance was my favorite thing, and I was a gymnast. I find that expression through movement is easier, in some ways, than expression through words.”

Way Movement Expression Easier My Favorite Favorites Things Gymnast

Author:Kristin Kreuk

“Photography... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919)”

Vision Movement Expression Photography Cosmic Embodiment

Author:Paul Strand

“I raised the camera, pretended to study a focus which did not include them, and waited and watched closely, sure that I would finally catch the revealing expression, one that would sum it all up, life that is rhythmed by movement but which a stiff image destroys, taking time in cross section, if we do not choose the essential imperceptible fraction of it.”

Ifs Study Focus Movement Expression Essentials Crosses Cameras Raised Take Time Sections Revealing Fractions

Author:Julio Cortazar

“Images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream, and the former unity of life is lost forever. Apprehended in a partial way, reality unfolds in a new generality as a pseudo-world apart, solely as an object of contemplation. The tendency toward the specialization of images-of-the-world finds its highest expression in the world of the autonomous image, where deceit deceives itself. The spectacle in its generality is a concrete inversion of life, and, as such the autonomous movement of non-life.”

Source: The Society of the Spectacle

“Stillness alone is the potentiality for creativity; movement alone is creativity restricted to a certain aspect of its expression. But the combination of movement and stillness enables you to unleash your creativity in all directions-wherever the power of your attention takes you.”

Certain Attention Creativity Movement Expression Aspect Combination Stillness

Book:The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams

Source: The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams

“I love voice over work. To me, voice over and animation is such an art, because you focus solely on your voice. You do not focus on how to speak, combined with facial expressions, movement, etc. You as the actor need to convey all those things with only your voice.”

Needs Art Actors Speak Voice Focus Movement Expression Art Is Etc Animation Facial Facial Expression Voice Over

Author:Atticus Shaffer

“I would not be surprised to see interesting new forms of expression and literary genres develop as the e-book movement matures.”

Book Form Interesting Movement Expression Genre Literary Genre

Author:Tom Peters

“Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.”

People Thinking Movement Expression Higher Ballet Acceptable Dirt Elitist

Author:Yoko Ono

“I'm a world-class people watcher. I like to watch people's body movements, their expressions. It says so much about them.”

People World Body Class Watches Movement Expression Watchers World Class Body Movement

Author:Jill Scott

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