Art Dance Quotes

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

  Mata Hari

  Love, Dance, Art

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• 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

  Dance, Mother, Art

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

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

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

  Shirley MacLaine

  Dance, Art, Dancing

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

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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

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

  Ted Shawn

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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

  Dale Carnegie

  Dance, Art, Positivity

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

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  The Dance of Life ch. 2 (1923)

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

  Scott Adams

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  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

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

  Vicki Baum

  Happiness, Happy, Dance

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

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Positive, Art

  "Conversations with Maya Angelou". Book by Jeffrey M. Elliot, 1989.

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• Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing

  Charles Baudelaire, Rosemary Lloyd (1991). “The prose poems and La Fanfarlo”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• 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

  Dance, Art, Memories

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• 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

  Life, Dance, Being Yourself

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

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

  Catie Curtis

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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• 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

  Art, Believe, Cities

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• Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Ballet Class, Play

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

  Samuel Beckett

  Life, Dance, Thinking

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• 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

  Dance, Art, Night

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Music, Dance, Dancing

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.198, Penguin

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

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Lying, Women

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

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

  Mary Schmich

  Inspirational, Dance, Ballet Class

  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

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

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Inspiring, Dance, Sports

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

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• Nobody cares if you can't dance well.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Healing, Ballet Class

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