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(Dioskourides of Samos, 1st century BC)

“In cuisine, in music, in sculpture, in painting, it’s everything. Either we like the gesture, either we like the hand, or we don’t. Me, I love it. It might be the sense I like the most. Maybe even more than the sense of taste. And this hand…if we want it to be more beautiful, we must work seven hours, eight hours, ten hours in the kitchen everyday. This makes the hand more precise, more accurate and more elegant. That’s the trick.”

Allain Passard

“In mime, we can find beauty in the simplest gestures.”

Marcel Marceau

“A composition comes as a single gesture which is already, in essence, music. (…) The compositional task is to find the appropriate system for the gesture.”

“If a single bell is struck, and we contemplate the nature of its sound– the Klang at impact, the spread of sound after this initial gesture, and then the lingering cloud of resonance–what we hear takes us to the heart of tintinnabuli.”

Arvo Pärt

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

Matisse

‘The job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. It’s not about the object, and it’s not about the image; it’s about the viewer. That’s where the art happens.”

Jeff Koons

“A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual,
as his creation”

Milan Kundera