Pointe Dancers Quotes:

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

There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques; second, those who, by concentrating their minds, lead the body into the rhythm of a desired emotion, expressing a remembered feeling or experience. And finally, there are those who convert the body into a luminous fluidity, surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul.

- Isadora Duncan

topic: Dance, Inspiration, Dancing, Pointe Dancers

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

- Vicki Baum

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

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

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

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

- Samuel Beckett

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

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

- Martha Graham

source: Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

topic: Dance, Lying, Weather, Barometer, Never Lie

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

- Mata Hari

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

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

It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely.

- Martha Graham

topic: Dance, Years, Instruments, Pointe Dancers

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

- Charles Baudelaire

topic: Dance, Dancing, Mystery, Dancers Inspiration, 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

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

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

Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

- Agnes de Mille

topic: Dance, Passion, Poor, Dancers Inspiration, Pointe

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

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

Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily small deaths.

- Martha Graham

topic: Dance, Sleep, Frustration, Pointe Dancers, Great Dance

There are three steps you have to complete to become a professional dancer: learn to dance, learn to perform, and learn how to cope with injuries.

- David Gere

topic: Dance, Three, Steps, Dance Steps, Pointe Dancers

People tend to look at dancers like we are these little jewels, little cardboard cut outs, and yet we have blood and guts and go through Hell.

- Susan Jaffe

topic: Dance, Cutting, Blood, Inspirational Dance, Pointe Dancers

Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.

- Sylvie Guillem

topic: Dance, Perfection, Soul, Pointe, Pointe Dancers

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

- Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.

- Agnes de Mille

topic: Dance, Dancing, Attention, Dandy, Pointe

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

- William Butler Yeats

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

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 physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words.

- Bill Irwin

topic: Dance, Powerful, Body, Pointe Dancers, Ballet Dancer