Non-Verbal Quotes

Music is the language of the heart without words.

To be an animator you have to be able to tell stories but I'm not very verbal - I definitely do it through pictures.

Sacred play is anything that takes you into that right hemisphere of your brain. It turns out that this move away from left to the right hemisphere, that sense of expansiveness and everything, can be accomplished through unusual rhythmic action, or any action that requires so much attention away from words that you cannot think in words.

True creativity often starts where language ends.

One who ”knows,” knows there is no need to discourse; knowing is enough

But I've had to act and not depend on my voice so much.

Music bypasses the conceptual mind. Music does not give you food for thought.

I don't need sound to talk to me.

Modeling is really silent acting.

When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.

I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.

GIFT You tell me that silence is nearer to peace than poems but if for my gift I brought you silence (for I know silence) you would say This is not silence this is another poem and you would hand it back to me

You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.

A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear.

Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it's just about impossible to follow up with words. They don't have anything to do with each other.

Mime makes the invisible, visible and the visible, invisible.

I like photographers. You don't ask questions.

I let the actions of my life stand for what I am as a human being. Contend with that, not the words.

Comedy isn't necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it's a question of timing, of the proper rhythm.

I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed.

Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it.

School and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to be at least paint as I wanted to and say what I wanted to when I painted as that seemed to be the only thing I could do that didn't concern anybody but myself. I found that I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn't say in any other way things that I had no words for.

As a cinematographer, I was always attracted to stories that have the potential to be told with as few words as possible.