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Quotes About Movement

I don't think you can talk about progress in art—movement, but not progress.
~ Donald Barthelme
Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement
~ Edgar Degas
With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of importance in the art world since Velazquez.
~ Joaquin Sorolla
Devoid of all romance, the music plays and everyone must dance. I'm bowing out.
~ Don McLean
And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate.
~ Graeme Murphy
I was always interested in dance as a creative art and traditionally dance is taught as an interpretive art.
~ Unknown
Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you.
~ Jean Cocteau
Don't just stand there, let's get to it, Strike a pose, there's nothing to it...
~ Madonna Ciccone
I had danced when I was younger, until I was about 12, and I always idealized it, as most young girls do, as the most beautiful art. It's an expression without words.
~ Natalie Portman
The Art Deco movement, architecture from that period and sort of the industrial aesthetic from that period. Art Deco meets tribal kind of thing. All that is my primal inspiration.
~ Pamela Love
Revolution used to be cool, but now it's out of fashion.
~ Ray Davies
Poetry is the most bodily of the arts.
~ Robert Pinsky
To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if tou art mov'd, thou runst away. (To be angry is to move, to be brave is to stand still. Therefore, if you're angry, you'll run away.)
~ William Shakespeare
This place is alive, " Sunni said in wonder. "Things are moving. Inside a painting.
~ Unknown
Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.
~ Paul Valery
Dance is the language of artistic kinesis.
~ Unknown
Dance is moving sculpture.
~ Unknown
I started out as an impressionist and that's all about observing, how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.
~ Eddie Murphy
In nearly all the matters in which the Pan-German movement was wanting, the attitude of the Christian Social Party was correct and well-planned.
~ Adolf Hitler
For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
Let's get glam. It's all in the way you move. Let's get glam. Don't let the clothes wear you. Let's get glam. It's all an attitude.
~ Christina Aguilera
The basic vehicle of the dance is the human body. When and how people dance is determined by their attitudes towards their body.
~ Gerald Jonas
break-dancing became the
~ Danielle Steel
How is it that human anatomy evolved so that something as stupid-looking as a repetitive back-and-forth movement can generate the peak of physical ecstasy?
~ Daria Snadowsky