#gesture

All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master. ↗

— Joshua Reynolds

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The retrospective glance is a relatively easy gesture for us to make. ↗

— George Crumb

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I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls. ↗

— Carly Rae Jepsen

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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

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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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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

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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

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The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

— Norman Thomas

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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

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