Anna Halprin Quotes

#1. The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings. When we grow up, we learn that it's far more common for human beings to turn into rats.

Gregory Maguire

#3. Just as the ancients danced to call upon the spirits in nature, we too can dance to find the spirits within ourselves that have been long buried and forgotten.

Anna Halprin

#4. The body is living art. Your movement through time and space is art. A painter has brushes. You have your body.

Anna Halprin

#5. It is love of my fan's that always makes me stand firm.

Ryu Si-won

#6. You told me to stay," July said. "I know I did, son," Augustus said. "I'm sure you wish you had. But yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back. Go on with your digging and I'll tidy up.

Larry McMurtry

#7. Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

Joseph Addison

#8. The moment was all; the moment was enough.

Virginia Woolf

#9. I'm very excited about dance and love it with a deep passion. I also struggle, tire and become discouraged. But what has always revived me ... has been the rebirth of energy each time the creative process is awakened and artistic activity begins to unfold even in some infinitesimal measure.

Anna Halprin

#10. As we tap into the deep sources of bodily wisdom through creative art expression,we dance the renewal, recreation, and healing of ourselves and our world.

Anna Halprin

#11. Whatsoever is good; the same is also approved of God.

Richard Hooker

#12. Drosophila has long been our main workhorse in genetics, yielding insight in the relation between chromosomes and genes.

Frans De Waal

#13. Every experience I've had in my life is a resource in my body.

Anna Halprin