Physical Language Quotes

Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. It is a completely physical language, the words of which consist of all visible objects. An object which is abstract, not visible, non-existent, is not within the realm of painting.

They are poets of gesture.

Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects.

You know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important - in American dance, the entire development of modern dance, and creating a wonderful physical language.

The body says what words cannot.

Dancing doesn't have a language.

To me, dance is an extraordinary thing, more extraordinary than most people usually think. Dance preceded writing, speaking and music. When mute people speak their body language, it is true speaking rather than handicap, this is the first word and the first writing. Thus to me, the body is fundamental.

There's something about the rhythms of language that correspond to the rhythms of our own bodies.