Milan Kundera Quotes

How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.

The things one can express with the hand, with the head, with the shoulders!... How many useless and encumbering words then disappear! What economy!

The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual - as we think so will we act.

A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

I assume the body language no matter what in doing voiceover. There is a transformative aspect.

When you act, your whole body is the instrument.

Dancing is like - it's another way of communicating, no?

What was old can be brought back new, and I bring that to the table. I bring mannerisms, facials, body language, positioning.

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture's purpose was to disclose them.

There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.

Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.

..he made me understand something very important. Whether because I am a Latin, or because I am a neurotic, I have a need of gestures. I am myself expressive, demonstrative; every feeling I have takes on expression: words, gestures, signs, letters, articulateness or action. I need this in others.

You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify

The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

Movements are as eloquent as words.

My method is to find a word with a gesture.

Dance is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual

Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral.

Sexuality is primarily a means of communicating with other people, a way of talking to them, of expressing our feelings about ourselves and them. It is essentially a language, a body language, in which one can express gentleness and affection, anger and resentment, superiority and dependence far more succinctly than would be possible verbally, where expressions are unavoidably abstract and often clumsy.

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

I just stick my tongue out because I hate smiling in pictures.

Sex is the Universal Language in which nobody speaks; they don't have to.