Movement Quotes - Page 2

• There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.

  Doris Humphrey

  Philosophy, Unique, Medicine

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• The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.

  Carol P. Christ

  Leaving, Growing, Attacking

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• It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of uniform and ordered movements the appearances concerning the movements of the wandering heavenly bodies could be preserved.

  Plato

  Plato, Science, Body

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• When objects shattered into fragments appeared in my painting about 1909, this for me was a way of getting closest to the object... Fragmentation helped me to establish space and movement in space.

  Georges Braque

  Space, Way, Painting

  "Braque". Book by Edwin Mullins, Thames and Hudson, p. 55, 1968.

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• If the artist succeeds in producing the impression of a movement which takes several moments for accomplishment, his work is certainly much less conventional than the scientific image, where time is abruptly suspended.

  Auguste Rodin

  Artist, Accomplishment, Succeed

  Auguste Rodin, Paul Gsell (1983). “Rodin on Art and Artists: Conversations with Paul Gsell”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Diversity, Body, Velocity

  Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, baron de, Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu (2005). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.2, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Sweeping gestures from the shoulder allow you to make generous marks, well suited to large scale work. You don't get anything simpler than this - I'm sure it is the way the cave men drew.

  Stan Smith

  Men, Caves, Gestures

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• I did not like the nothing, and it is thus that I met the empty, the deep empty, the depth of the blue.

  Yves Klein

  Blue, Depth, Empty

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• The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer.

  Hjalmar Schacht

  Honor, Golden, Badges

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• You should draw not what the thing looks like, not even what it is, but what it is doing... Gesture has no precise edges, no forms. The forms are in the act of changing. Gesture is movement in space.

  Kimon Nicolaides

  Space, Looks, Gestures

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• Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally.

  Karl Rove

  Real, Serious, Faces

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• 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.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Expression, Differences, Energy

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• I've been filming time lapse flowers continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for 35 years. To watch them move is a dance I will never get tired of. Their sensual beauty immerses us with color, smell, taste and touch.

  Louis Schwartzberg

  Flower, Moving, Tired

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• My monumental netted sculptural environments move through time, animated by an ever-changing 'wind choreography,' making invisible air currents suddenly visible to the human eye. I make living, breathing pieces that respond to the forces of nature - wind, light, water.

  Janet Echelman

  Moving, Eye, Light

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• It was a tradition to represent a dancer frozen in a chosen position, like a snapshot. I broke away from this tradition by superimposing postures, blending light and motion and scrambling the planes.

  Sonia Delaunay

  Light, Dancer, Snapshots

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• With all its variety and liveliness, color acts in the work of art as blood does as it circulates through our bodies. Color is what keeps the painting alive and moving.

  Joseph Raffael

  Art, Moving, Blood

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• Stroke followed stroke with the velocity of light. The movement of my hand was interrupted only by the act of changing colors.

  Carole Katchen

  Light, Hands, Color

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• Skinheads are becoming part of our overall movement.

  Tom Metzger

  Becoming

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• I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.

  Ted Turner

  Father, Thinking, Environmental

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• The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

  Wendell Phillips

  Mean, Labour Movement, People

  Wendell Phillips (1891). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters: Second series”

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• I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen.

  Lisa Bonet

  Important, Needs, Happens

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

  Alan Cohen

  Life, Change, Meaningful

  Alan Cohen (1990). “Joy Is My Compass: Taking the Risk to Follow Your Bliss”, Dolphin Communications Company

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• The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

  Karl Marx

  Writing, History, May

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1976). “Collected works”

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• Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Presidential, Political, Reform

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• There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

  Galen Rowell

  Photography, Environmental, Roles

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