Gestural Quotes

Thus we do not yet have experience with the
adult language abilities of monkeys and apes. One of the most intriguing questions is whether a verbally accomplished chimpanzee mother will be able to communicate language to her offspring. It seems very likely that this should be possible and that a community of chimps initially competent in gestural
language could pass down the language to subsequent generations. ~ Carl Sagan

I don't even know if I always entirely get what I'm trying to say right away with lyrics. I like a lot of things that are more subtext. I grew up mishearing lyrics my whole life, but somehow there's so much more, too, that's implied in vocal delivery and the music itself and the gestural quality of it. ~ Kim Gordon

Sign is a live, contemporaneous, visual-gestural language and consists of hand shapes, hand positioning, facial expressions, and body movements. Simply put, it is for me the most beautiful, immediate, and expressive of languages, because it incorporates the entire human body. ~ Myron Uhlberg

What did you think?" she asked Michel, smiling.
"You mean that racist shit we just saw?"
Sara raised her eyebrows, signaling that this was out-of-bounds. Only sanctioned critiques, please. "Racist? How so?"
"Snow Yellow?"
"I'm pretty sure it's a comment on racism, it's not doing racism."
"What's the difference?"
"Um, it's sort of an interrogation into . . . I don't know, notions of authenticity in the Western world. Like gestural marks that are meant to - maybe - provide like, a feedback loop into network ecologies of beauties, and like, other ways of interaction conceived as data flows?"
Michel looked at her incredulously and laughed. "Who has done this terrible thing to your speech? ~ Elvia Wilk

Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap. ~ Morton Feldman

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural. ~ Luc Ferrari

In addition to Ameslan, chimpanzees and other nonhuman primates are being taught a variety of other gestural languages. And it is just this transition from tongue to hand that has permitted humans to regain the ability-lost, according to Josephus, since Eden-to communicate with the animals. ~ Carl Sagan

And for many, politics has become gestural: it is about refusing to engage with power on power's own terms; about action, not ideas; about the symbolic control of territory to create islands of utopia. ~ Paul Mason

People have thought that some of my writing and lines are done by a machine. I'm able to move in a way that's part gestural dance performance, and it's fun for me, so I incorporate that into the painting. ~ Jose Parla