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I don't bring yesterday's poses to today's practice. I know yesterday's poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don't want yesterday's experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.
Arms and the man
Not in our make-up, to be sure - not in the pose which is preceded by the tantaras of a trumpet - do the essential traits in our character first reveal themselves. But truly in the little things the real self is exteriorised.
The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.
When you pose for a photograph, it's behind a smile that isn't yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I value in you is that intensity. I want to make portraits as intense as people.
Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.
Photography today appears to be in a state of flight ... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.
If I give up the viewpoint of action, my perfect nakedness is revealed to me.
The nude is the perfect expression of freedom. Freedom to be.
hands, making him submit
The body always expresses the spirit whose envelope it is. And for him who can see, the nude offers the richest meaning.
There comes a moment when it is no longer you who takes the photograph, but receives the way to do it quite naturally and fully.
Crouching in position posing in perfect posture
On the rooftop of a gothic cathedral sits a monster
A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.
OK. Yoga position 99.
A few months post-baby is not the easiest time to pull out your best yoga poses.
Cynicism's always a pose - always.
Posture is Paramount.
When I used to model, the job description is 'shut up and pose.' There are people today who would really like me to go back to that old job description and 'just shut up and pose.'
When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move; it means that they do not (i)emerge(i), do not (i)leave(i): they are anesthetized and fastened down, like butterflies.
Painted and smiling, I balance on my trapeze. Luka is poised ten metres away, his muscles shining under the lights. The wooden circles in his earlobes twitch as his jaw clenches, unclenches, clenches.
This is the only advanced pose (Firefly Pose) I know that you can run away from the police in.
The nude does not simply represent the body, but relates it, by analogy, to all structures that have become part of our imaginative experience.
Their poses are all different but the face is the same. Painted from memory in scene after scene is the fresh-faced beauty. Kate.
It's the bargain I've made with myself. If I can't caress her body with my hands, I paint it with my brushes. Use my fingers to trace her lines.
So must the artist do in working at the nude.
Prugo gazes at his image onscreen, cocking his head this was and that, making "sexy" faces, checking himself out. Inspired, he gets up and lifts up his shirt, showing off his bare midriff. Then he turns around and does a booty dance for the camera.
Will you pose for the nude?" I asked
breathlessly, as he jostled me on his
shoulder.
"Yes. With a condition."
"What condition?"
"I want you naked, as well, while you
paint.
When you feel like putting something into your picture or do not know what is the matter with it, take something out.
I've been asked to pose for Playboy.
Our posture NOW defines our portion later!
The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer has forgotten it, who should remember it, as the instrument of [the dance] art is the human body itself.
I want to be real. I don't want to pose as anything. I don't want to pose as a tough guy. I don't want to pose as a nice guy.
...it feels as if mountain pose is the most challenging of all yoga poses. To be still. To be grounded. To claim one's place in the world.
Any nude is a something you setup in front of the camera.
Now we're going to transition into the pigeon pose," the female instructor said serenely. "I don't know what that is!" Lacey yelled at the TV. "Why don't you ever explain it to us?" With that, yoga was over.
When I make a picture, I make love.
Creating ideas that spread and connecting the disconnected are the two pillars of our new society, and both of them require the posture of the artist.
Your posture can have a great deal of influence on your personal presentation and image, revealing your attitude toward yourself and others.
Obviously I love the fans, and it's beyond lovely that people like my work, and I love saying 'Hi,' shaking a hand, doing a high five. All that's fine. But the posing for photos is so time-consuming and frankly a bit weird.
The formal artistic gesture is already expressed in the act of taking the photograph.
He laced his hands behind his neck and propped his boots on the opposite arm of the sofa. If an artist were to capture this image, it would have been labeled,Smugness: A Portrait. She wanted to shake him.
A lot of times people will think, "I'm strong, I'm in shape; why can't I do this pose?" But that's not the point. There's nothing to win in yoga. You just do what you can do, one day to the next.
My decency is simply a pose and so is my generosity.
In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.
There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.
I am interested in the paradox between identity and uniformity, in the power and vulnerability of each individual and each group. It is in this paradox that I try to visualize by concentrating on poses, attitudes, gestures, and gazes.
When you see such photos, you can't help but wonder at just how sweet and sad and innocent all moments of life are rendered by the tripping of a camera's shutter, for at that point the future is still unknown and has yet to hurt us, and also for that brief moment, our poses are accepted as honest.
You think you're funny! You think you're funny Cena, huh? The only pose you're going to be doing tonight is lying on your back with me on top!
Project a confident image through good body posture.
Inside movement there is one moment in which the elements are in balance. Photography must seize the importance of this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it.
What counts is to be in the world, the posture is immaterial, so long as one is on earth. To breathe is all that is required.
I'm the girl / sprawled breathless, drawing herself nude.
Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity.
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.
Godliness should promote the posture worth of exercise and fitness
Corpse Pose sounds like no big deal, right? Then what's so difficult about this spiritualized snooze? Forget about getting your feet behind your head. Just try lying still for ten minutes. With nothing left to do, you're finally forced to come face to face with yourself.
The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.
Yoga makes me feel really sexy.
The way someone who's being photographed presents himself to the camera, and the effect of the photographer's response on that presence, is what the making of a portrait is all about.
Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
Simplicity itself is the key. Education in ballet, dance, martial arts, etc., is done through poses, or to be more precise, through a countless series of poses. Perfection of movement is achieved through the flow of perfectly rehearsed poses.
The body is an art to give pleasure to the soul
We lay there completely bared to each other. Fully clothed but our souls naked!
stillness, the ruler of movement.
To take this posture itself is the purpose of our practice.
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
naked goddess with
Over the years, I have perfected the art of dancing and photographing at the same time: it's a great double act. If you're dancing, you are joining in. If you stand there rigid, you are not in the flow of things.
yoga is not a practice of attaining idealized physical postures, but a process of self-exploration, self-acceptance, and self-transformation. Reinforce
I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.
Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.
Freedom in a posture is when every joint is active.
A likeness pleases every body;
In my stillness I am the eternal possibility. In my movement I am the cosmos.
Stillness is where creativity and solutions are found.
From my sketch files I'll find a pose that shows the emotion behind a particular character's story.
I remember thinking, 'Downward dog' is so not a resting pose!' Now it actually can be.
Confident Assured Posture: Foundation of Powerful Style
Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind words or paintings or statues or other forms of human expression, but the moment you move you stand revealed, for good or ill, for what you are.
Out of the debris of a statue thoroughly shattered a new art work is born: a naked foot unforgettably resting on a stone; a candid hand; a bent knee which contains all the speed of the foot race; a torso which has no face to prevent us from loving it.
Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies.
Stillness is training for action.
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
If the face appears, the picture is inevitably a portrait and the expression of the face will dictate the viewer's response to the body.
Though some will try to deny it, I believe that every woman, at some time in her life, has had or will have the desire to pose nude.
When we are quiet and still we contract and settle.
You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.
Many models do yoga, but I find it boring. I'd rather be outdoors having fun.
Sexuality, eroticism and desire are important for all of us. But that is also the contradiction. How can we speak about pictures and, for example, say no to this way of representing a woman's body? It's also a camera-and-object problem, of who is really guiding the camera.
Making these photographs has often seemed to me like a kind of dance. Often I have danced badly and the world has fallen apart at my feet. But sometimes the dance has gone well and my subject and I have moved together as if with shared purpose.
as Aristotle said, "The soul never thinks without a picture.
The body is a bundle of careful compromises.
I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.
The selfie era offers a big opening: everybody can do it; nowadays even five-year-olds know how to take a nude self-portrait.
Public postures have the configuration of private derangement.
We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures.
Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.
The yoga pose is not the goal. Becoming flexible is not the goal. Standing on your hands is not the goal. The goal is serenity. Balance. Truly finding peace in your own skin.
The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model.
I am an Indian, so I do yoga.