Art Dance Quotes:

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

- Mata Hari

topic: Dance, Movement, Courtesans, Inspirational Dance, Dance Class

The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space.

- Curt Sachs

topic: Dance, Mother, Art, Dance Is Life, Dancers Inspiration

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

topic: Beautiful, Dance, Art, Beautiful Dance, Art Dance

Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.

- Shirley MacLaine

topic: Dance, Art, Soul, Just Dance, Art Dance

Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

- Martha Graham

source: "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

topic: Inspirational, Dance, Art, Inspirational Dance, Language Acquisition

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

- Ted Shawn

topic: Dance, Art, Stuff, Inspirational Dance, Modern Dance

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

- Dale Carnegie

source: Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.117, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

topic: Dance, Art, Positivity, Just Dance, Art Dance

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

- Havelock Ellis

source: The Dance of Life ch. 2 (1923)

topic: Life, Beautiful, Dance, Inspirational Dance, Dance Class

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

- Scott Adams

source: Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.438, Penguin

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Fine Arts, Creativeness

There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

- Vicki Baum

topic: Happiness, Dance, Dancing, Homecoming, Inspirational Dance

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

- Martha Graham

source: "The Runner's Book of Daily Inspiration: A Year of Motivation, Revelation, and Instruction". Book by Kevin Nelson, p. 11, 1999.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Dance, Motivational Dance

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Art, Creativeness, Creative People

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

- Charles Baudelaire

topic: Dance, Dancing, Mystery, Dancers Inspiration, Pointe

Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer's art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories--when his dancing days are over.

- Martha Graham

topic: Dance, Art, Memories, Art Dance

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

- Margot Fonteyn

source: "Margot Fonteyn : Autobiography‎" by Margot Fonteyn, (p. 81), 1975.

topic: Dance, Art, People, Pretension, Ballet Dancer

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.

- Catie Curtis

topic: Dance, Art, Writing, Art Dance, Creative Process

I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life.

- Antony Gormley

topic: Art, Believe, Cities, Street Life, Art Dance

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

- George Balanchine

topic: Dance, Piano, Play, Motivational Dance, Tap Dancers

Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Life, Dance, Thinking, Inspirational Dance, Tap Dancers

Dance in the most perishable of the arts. Ballets are forgotten, ballerinas retire, choreographers die--and what remains of that glorious production which so excited us a decade ago, a year ago, or even last night?

- Jack Anderson

topic: Dance, Art, Night, Last Dance, Ballerina

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Music, Dance, Dancing, Humour And Laughter, Motivational Dance

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

- Agnes de Mille

source: Agnes De Mille (1980). “America dances”, Macmillan Pub Co

topic: Dance, Women, Lying, Inspirational Dance, Never Lie

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

- Mary Schmich

source: Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.33, Agate Digital

topic: Dance, Rooms, Living Room, Motivational Dance, Tap Dancers

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

- Mikhail Baryshnikov

source: "Dance Like There’s Nobody Watching" by Siobhan Kukolic, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 19, 2016.

topic: Inspiring, Dance, Sports, Dance Class, Dancers Inspiration

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.

- Martha Graham

source: Dave Barry (1998). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Crown

topic: Dance, Passion, Dancing, Nobody Cares, Inspirational Dance

When you take dancing lessons, you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps. It can go on for a long time. And then one day, you just learn to dance, and it is so different.

- Bill Austin

topic: Dance, Long, Dancing, Dance Steps, Art Dance

Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Life, Art, Inspiration, Fine Arts, Inspiration And Art

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

- John Dryden

source: John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.1562, Delphi Classics

topic: Dance, Feet, Dancing, Inspirational Dance, Motivational Dance

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it

- Isadora Duncan

topic: Music, Dance, Dancing, Dance Class, Pointe

Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, Dance, Dance 'till you drop.

- W. H. Auden

topic: Dance, Stars, Rafters, Homecoming, Inviting

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

- Edgar Degas

source: "The shop-talk of Edgar Degas".

topic: Beauty, Dance, Art, Impressionists, Impressionism

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Dance, Sexy, Expression, Wordplay, Inspirational Dance

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Inspirational, Life, Music, Music And Life, Inspirational Dance

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Dance, Heart, Shoes, Last Dance, Motivational Dance

Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.

- William Watson Purkey

topic: Heaven, Listening, Earth, Interesting Life, Just Living Life

Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully, and with inevitability. Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

- Constanze Mozart

topic: Dream, Art, Communication, Inspirational Dance, Motivational Dance

We mainly focus on putting music, art, dance, theater, all forms of art, back into the community, so the community can put it into the world.

- Erykah Badu

topic: Art, Focus, Community, Art Dance

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

- Dave Barry

source: Dave Barry (1998). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Crown

topic: Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing, Homecoming, Nobody Cares

The dance is the mother of all languages.

- Robin G. Collingwood

topic: Dance, Mother, Language, Art Dance

I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.

- Mikhail Baryshnikov

topic: Dance, Trying, Motivational Dance, Dance Class, Dancers Inspiration

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Dance, Art, Dancing, Dancers Inspiration, Good Dance

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

- William Butler Yeats

topic: Inspirational, Life, Dance, Motivational Dance, Tap Dancers

The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews Not to be born is the best for man The second best is a formal order The dance's pattern, dance while you can. Dance, dance, for the figure is easy The tune is catching and will not stop Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

- W. H. Auden

topic: Stars, Heart, Men, Homecoming, Inviting

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance

- George Balanchine

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Motivational, Dance, Art, Dance Class, Dancers Inspiration

Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Inspirational, Life, Art, Art Dance

Perhaps, you know, new laws, new domains of potential openness are occurring as the universe ages, and complexity previously disallowed is now possible, and we are that complexity. We are nature moving out of its genetic phase - a phase under the control of chemical genes, which are physical structures, in to an epigenetic phase, a phase of culture ruled by codes, transformable culturally confined codes - mathematics, religion, philosophy, art, dance, humor.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Art, Philosophy, Moving, Moving Out, Art Dance

We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a measure of how we're doing as individuals and as a civilization, so maybe we should be worried.

- Frank Gehry

source: Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

topic: Art, Civilization, Literature, Art Dance

I think it started since I was born, I always had a need to express myself, you know, as a human being, and I found that it felt right when I expressed myself through art, dance, through acting, so it kind of happened naturally.

- Alex Meraz

topic: Art, Thinking, Acting, Art Dance

I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that.

- Darren Aronofsky

topic: Movie, Art, Hip Hop, Art Dance