Action Quote by Michael Bassey Johnson

“There's no difference between a madman and a professor...it should be clear to you in the way they dress, act and think.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a link in…

— August Bournonville

When technique is obtrusive it becomes mere mannerism, a conscious striving for effect. It is only a means to an end - the manner…

— Walter J. Phillips

“Mannerism, especially when it takes the form of recurrent word or phrase, is by no means easy to represent; there is but a hair's…

— Mary Lascelles

Although I adore the Italian High Renaissance, I'd rather look at Mannerism. The former is ordered, integrated, otherworldly, and grandiose; it leaves you feeling…

— Jerry Saltz

Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Carlyle must undoubtedly plead guilty to the charge of mannerism. He not only has his vein, but his peculiar manner of working it.He has…

— Henry David Thoreau

“A Mannerist designer would attack the linguistic convention not by avoiding the use of the signal, but by misusing it notoriously.”

— Bonta

You will not find me repeating a character or carrying similar mannerism in different films.

— Amyra Dastur

Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm not mannerist. I don't think I'm interested in mannerism. If I ever use it in a way, or if manner is like some…

— Julian Schnabel

I realized that one cannot reveal oneself without mannerism, without some evident trace of one's personality. But all the same one should not go…

— Georges Braque