Nonverbal Expression Quotes

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

Where words cease, there music begins.

When truth cannot make itself known in words, it will make itself known in deeds.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.

It struck me at some point that the things I wanted to say had to be wordless. I had to renounce words in order to go deep into the practice of making materials and textures that would express what I'm trying to say more accurately.

I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.

It's not that I don't like words. There's sometimes no need for words.

the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

Ah, if you could dance all that you've just said, then I'd understand.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

When I say nothing, I say everything

Sometimes I feel we express more with dancing or acting or painting than with words.

If there is a doctrine, a message behind Live, it's just that wordless intensity that doesn't necessarily have to mean anything.

Language just gradually came in, one or two stressed words a time. Before then, I would just scream. I couldn't talk. I couldn't get my words out. So the only way I could tell someone what I wanted was to scream. If I didn't want to wear a hat, the only way I knew to communicate was screaming and throwing it on the floor.

Elizabeth Taylor is, in my opinion, the greatest actress in film history. She instinctively understands the camera and its nonverbal intimacies. Opening her violet eyes, she takes us into the liquid realm of emotion, which she inhabits by Pisces intuition. Richard Burton said that Taylor showed him how to act for the camera. Economy and understatement are essential. At her best, Elizabeth Taylor simply is. An electric, erotic charge vibrates the space between her face and the lens. It is an extra-sensory, pagan phenomenon.

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

Usually they are quick to discover that I cannot see or hear.... It is not training but love which impels them to break their silence about me with the thud of a tail rippling against my chair on gambols round the study, or news conveyed by expressive ear, nose, and paw. Often I yearn to give them speech, their motions are so eloquent with things they cannot say.

The primate laugh is given in playful contexts, and as such has a strong similarity to the human laugh.

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.

Even silence is so articulate at times.