Quotes about dance
dance dance-and-dancing happy
And because I am happy and dance and sing,They think they have done me no injury. William Blake
dance taken steps
So you can't dance? Not at all? Not even one step? How can you say that you've taken any trouble to live when you won't even dance? Hermann Hesse
dance dancing parent
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom. Henry Fielding
dance stars flower
She danced the dance of flames and fire, and the dance of swords and spears; she danced the dance of stars and the dance of space, and then she danced the dance of flowers in the wind. Khalil Gibran
dance believe guy
Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it. Norman Mailer
dance movement sacred
My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple. Mata Hari
dance ballet-class dancing
The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word. Mata Hari
dance pain shrinks
Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine. Mason Cooley
dance humility pride
Pride sings and dances; humility sighs. Mason Cooley
dance nerves energy
With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy. Mia Wasikowska
dance art men
Man has used human rhythmic movement as raw material out of which to create works of art, as the composer of music uses sound, the sculptor uses stone and wood, the painter his pigments, and the writer - words. Ted Shawn
dance art men
Education in the art of dance is education of the whole man − his physical, mental and emotional natures are disciplined and nourished simultaneously in dance. Ted Shawn
dance men profound
I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things. Ted Shawn
dance spiritual believe
I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written. Ted Shawn
dance art ballet-class
Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. Ted Shawn
dance reading dancing
When I was young, and addicted to reading, I had heard about dancing on the points of metaphysical needles; but, by mixing in the world, I found the points of political needles finer and sharper than the metaphysical ones. John Adams
dancer born
One is born to be a great dancer. George Balanchine
dance ballet stories
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell ... we can't dance synonyms. George Balanchine
dance clouds trousers
I am a cloud - in trousers. George Balanchine
dance unions muse
My muse must come to me on union time. George Balanchine
dance teacher medicine
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. George Balanchine
dance ballet masterpiece
I could never make a ballet by wrinkling my brow and concentrating. If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how will you ever get it finished? George Balanchine
dance eye remember
The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as it is with the work of a magician George Balanchine
dance ballet important
Ballet is important and significant - yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure. George Balanchine
dance
See the music, hear the dance. George Balanchine
dance long tree
It's like the time capsule with everything in it. Or like the seed that when you plant it, becomes the enormous tree with leaves and fruit. Everybody was in that little seed, and so everything can open. The tree of dance is like that. It just takes a long, long time to blossom. George Balanchine
dance art athlete
Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same time, they strive for physical perfection not for the prowess alone but as a way of achieving the means necessary to express the pure nature of their art. George Balanchine
dance mirrors just-dance
The mirror is not you. The mirror is you looking at yourself. George Balanchine
dance made visible
Dance is music made visible George Balanchine
dance stealing ballet-teachers
God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do... George Balanchine
dance thinking interesting
Choreography is simpler than you think. Just go and do, and don't think so much about it. Just make something interesting. George Balanchine
dance girl men
Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a plot. George Balanchine
dance prayer sweat
First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers. George Balanchine