Tableau Quotes

The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity. - Lucinda Franks

The goal is always to make a nice tableau painting with the voice. The more color I can find, the more shadow I can find - the goal is always to make more nuance and colors. - Cecilia Bartoli

Just because I hold a shot for more than five seconds and it's all a deliberate tableau, people say it's theater. It's not really. - Sam Mendes

Jimmy Carter laid out policies that we now look back at and say, 'Gee, that actually made sense.' But you also need to explain it and convey and communicate in a way that provides that tableau, that understanding. - Eliot Spitzer

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. - Voltaire

I had been interested in Indian music and I actually started studying Tableaus before I met him. - Terry Riley

Eventually, though... Sony urged me to use English instead of French, so I wrote an English version of Etienne and Nadine's work, and then I felt compelled to expand on their original text. Their work was really a series of gorgeous tableaux, and I added more personal narrative and history for some of the characters. - Roger Waters

Even on a personal note, my dressing table downstairs is crowded with things, like a mini landscape. It's a city with buildings and towers and roads. There's a pool and a little park. When I move something around it becomes a different tableau. - Tony Curtis