Top 563 Gesture Quotes & Sayings

Doubt is what allows a single gesture to have a heart.

What [Tulio Serafin] said that impressed me was: "When one wants to find a gesture, when you want to find how to act on stage, all you have to do is listen to the music. The composer has already seen to that." If you take the trouble to really listen with your soul and with your ears - and I say soul and ears because the mind must work, but not too much also - you will find every gesture there. And it is all true, you know.

The paintings are more about physicality and gesture than meditation. I'd compare it to playing scales on the Cello - each sound (pitch and intensity) depends on the manner in which you hold and apply the bow. The same goes for the gesture of applying paint to a surface.

My method is to find a word with a gesture.

My work is not so overtly about movement. My horses' gestures are really quite quiet, because real horses move so much better than I could pretend to make things move. For the pieces I make, the gesture is really more within the body, it's like an internalized gesture, which is more about the content, the state of mind or of being at a given instant. And so it's more like a painting...the gesture and the movement is all pretty much contained within the body.

Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.

Living in memories is an empty gesture.

Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.

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

I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot.

I actually started to think a lot about the difference between a creative gesture and a noncreative gesture. I decided that all gestures were creative. Because you always have to make a decision at some point.

I can only gesture at what makes a story good.

how magnanimous was a gesture if one were constantly aware of its magnanimity?

Apology is the most courageous gesture we can make to ourselves.

A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture, belonging to nobody else), nor can it even be regarded as that person's instrument; on the contrary, it is gestures that use us as their instruments, as their bearers and incarnations

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

Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.

Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.

But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.

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.

If you have an idea, you have to move on it, to make a gesture. Drawing is an immediate way of articulating that idea - of making a gesture that is both physical and intellectual.

The gesture must be correct. If the gesture is correct, your mind really creates the reality of the figure, and it is not necessary to hang on all the rest [of the details].

Light gesture and color of the key compliments of any photograph. Light and color are obvious, but it is just her that is the most important. There is gesture in everything. It's up to you to find a gesture that is most telling.

Every gesture is a revolutionary act.

Success.. is all about being able to extend love to people... not in a big, capital letter sense but in the everyday. Little by little, task by task, gesture by gesture, word by word.

What you do for yourself, any gesture of kindness, any gesture of gentleness, any gesture of honesty and clear seeing toward yourself, will affect how you experience your world. In fact, it will transform how you experience the world. What you do for yourself, you’re doing for others, and what you do for others, you’re doing for yourself.

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

He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new truth.

I suggested a compromise to give the banks a year's time and see if they succeed in showing us that nationalization wasn't necessary. The year went by and we realized it hadn't done any good, that the money still ended up in the hands of the rich industrialists or friends of the bankers. So I concluded that it was necessary to nationalize the banks. And we did. Without considering it a socialist gesture or an antisocialist gesture, just a necessary one. Anyone who nationalizes only so as to be considered on the left to me is a fool.

If this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary, Id do it.

They are poets of gesture.

Vocal music is an attempt to take the whole human being and project it into space. It is the ultimate gesture of getting out of yourself. You take a part of you that is most private, most personal, most inward and you hurl it out into space - you project it as far as you can. That gesture of opining this whole region of the body results in an enormous spiritual release, and is felt by other people with tremendous impact.

There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away.

All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture.

The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.

In drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best.

If this gesture was the way of getting out of the penitentiary, I'd do it.

The formal artistic gesture is already expressed in the act of taking the photograph.

I thought of betrayal and how it came so easily - in a word, a glance, a gesture.

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content.

Each implementation of human effort, however minute the overall result may be, is summed up in the gesture of the sower - sometimes an awe-inspiring gesture.

The big moment came when it was decided to paint...Just To Paint. The gesture on the canvas was a gesture of liberation, from Value- political, aesthetic, moral.

Gesture is not always action.

It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean.

A story lives transformed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken

Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.

Why do people always gesture with their hands when they talk on the phone?

No gesture is too small when done with gratitude.

It may be meaningless, but at least it's a gesture.

I have, for my own projected works and ideas, only the silliest and dewiest of hopes; no matter what, I am romantic enough or sentimental enough to wish to contribute something to life's fabric, to the world's beauty.... [S]imply to live does not justify existence, for life is a mere gesture on the surface of the earth, and death a return to that from which we had never been wholly separated; but oh to leave a trace, no matter how faint, of that brief gesture! For someone, some day, may find it beautiful!

What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude.

For one thing, I want gesture-any kind of gesture, all kinds of gesture-gentle or brutal, joyous or tragic; the gesture of space soaring, sinking, streaming, whirling; the gestures of light flowing or spurting through color. I see everything as possessing or possessed by gesture. I've often thought of my paintings as having an axis around which everything revolves.

The essential gesture of the contemporary novel is to get people to turn the page, to entertain them, and I hate that. I want a novel where the gesture is towards existential investigation on every page. That, to me, is thrilling.

Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget.

Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of speech and gesture but the electronification of the entire range of human personal expressiveness. With electronification the flow is taken out of the wire and into the vacuum tube circuit, which confers freedom and flexibility such as are in metaphor and in words themselves.

Even the smallest gesture can make a huge difference.