What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude. – Marcel Marceau
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. – Marcel Marceau
Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it’s music, not words, that provides power. – Marcel Marceau
I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man’s destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish. – Marcel Marceau