“Mime makes the invisible, visible and the visible, invisible.”

As quoted in Core Media Collection for Elementary Schools (1978) by Lucy Gregor Brown; unsourced variant or misquotation: "A magician makes the visible invisible. A mime makes the invisible visible."

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French mime and actor 1923–2007

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