Andre Bjerke quotes

Andre Bjerke quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“A silent figure is the dancer, true but still, words become dance, and all things there express'd.”
-- Andre Bjerke

#Dance Quotes #Silent Quotes #Figures Quotes

“When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.”
“Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.”
“The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.”

Source : Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.234, New York Review of Books
“Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible”
“Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he'll look at you as if you were a hummingbird. Dancers don't get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.”
“There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.”

Source : Bess Wallace Truman, Harry S. Truman (2011). “Dear Harry, Love Bess: Bess Truman's Letters to Harry Truman, 1919–1943”, p.11, Truman State University Press
“Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials -- they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think -- rather than letting you figure it out on your own.”
“I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out.”

Source : Alex Katz, Vittoria Coen, Lisa Liebmann (1999). “Alex Katz. Catalogo della mostra”, Hopeful Monsters
“It takes some experimentation to figure out what people like and don't like.”

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