Dance Is An Art Quotes

#1. Dance is not an exercise. Dance is an art.

Alicia Alonso

#2. Dance is an art, so day by day, it's growing and there are new things that can be done.

Stephen Boss

#3. The Dance is an art because it demands vocation, knowledge, and ability.

August Bournonville

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

Shirley Maclaine

#5. I am not very comfortable about dancing at weddings and New Year parties. Maybe it's because of the way I have been brought up; I wouldn't want my family to feel that cringe moment. Dance is an art for me.

Deepika Padukone

#6. I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.

Mara Wilson

#7. Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a link in the chain of beauty, as a useful ornament for the stage, and this, in turn, as an important element in the spiritual development of nations.

August Bournonville

#8. The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now.

Robert Anton Wilson

#9. Dance removes you from this construct of the world that you have, and it's a conversation that you're having with people. That's how dance grew, as an art form.

Stephen Boss

#10. A lot of festivals can be a jumble of electronic music and rock and roll, and everything's all mixed up - some things are more performance art or light shows or dance parties, and then you'll have a singer-songwriter stuck in the middle to make the changeovers easier.

Jenny O.

#11. Manipulation is the art of making another person's spirit dance for personal amusement, and only through honoring oneself do we become strong enough to refuse to dance.

Caroline Myss

#12. It [ballet] projects a fragile kind of strength and a certain inflexible precision.

Ayn Rand

#13. Dance is low on the totem pole of the arts, because you're not left with a painting ... a book that will stay there, a score you can read.

Jerome Robbins

#14. In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#15. Degas was obsessed by the art of classical ballet, because to him it said something about the human condition. He was not a balletomane looking for an alternative world to escape into. Dance offered him a display in which he could find, after much searching, certain human secrets.

John Berger

#16. If words were adequate to describe fully what the dance can do, there would be no reason for all the mighty muscular effort, the discomfort, the sweat and the splendors of that art.

Jose Limon

#17. The real self of an artiste lies in art, so when an artiste performs, all the pain, trauma and tension get released through art, be it dancing, painting, singing, writing or even martial arts.

Mrinalini Sarabhai

#18. Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation.

Jamake Highwater

#19. Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.

Alexander Pope

#20. Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!

William Blake

#21. Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.

Tori Amos

#22. From music and dance to painting and sculpting, the arts allow us to explore new worlds and to view life from another perspective. They also encourage individuals to sharpen their skills and to nurture their imagination and intellect.

George W. Bush

#23. Dance music is my love, is my passion, is my life. I live for my fans and take my art very seriously.

Steve Aoki

#24. Dance is more than an art form; it is life itself.

Marty Rubin

#25. My art is just an effort to express the truth of my being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long years to find even one absolutely true movement.

Isadora Duncan

#26. No art is possible without a dance with death.

George Carlin

#27. I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

Sydney Pollack

#28. A correct execution of an adagio is the ne plus ultra of our art; and I look on it as the touch-stone of the dancer.

Carlo Blasis

#29. It is a temptation to exploit one's technique because an audience is easily reached this way, but they cannot be moved by technique alone and to move an audience is the role of dance as an art.

Alla Osipenko

#30. Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken language is our thing.

Jerry Saltz

#31. An intelligent man, a man who has a little meditative consciousness, can make his life a beautiful piece of art, can make it so full of love and full of music and full of poetry and full of dance that there are no limitations for it. Life is not hard. It is man's stupidity that makes it hard.

Rajneesh

#32. Dance means different things to different people". It is a blend of Nritta, Nritya and Natya. It is a poetic expression which tells stories to people, a subtle interfusion of drama in an otherwise classical pattern.

Shallu Jindal

#33. Hosting is an art form. Like acting, singing, or comedy hosting is a craft. It's a delicate dance of timing, the ability to read the room, and the art of conversation.

Todd Newton

#34. There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

Martha Graham

#35. Hip-hop culture is probably one of the most powerful things to come out of America in a long time - everything from the music to the art to the dance to the language.

Will.i.am

#36. It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not only in plastic but also in lyrical respect.

August Bournonville

#37. Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#38. Artistry is the dance of color & form, whether visual, musical, or sparked in the imagination by the written word.

Cathryn Louis

#39. Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.

Twyla Tharp

#40. Dance is the stepchild of the arts.

Twyla Tharp

#41. One day people will come back. they won't be able to help themselves. People need music and dance and beautiful things. They forget sometimes, but not forever. You'll see. One day, this will be a magical place again. With music and dance and good times and people celebrating.

Nadia Aguiar

#42. Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Twyla Tharp

#43. Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

Plato

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

Terence McKenna

#45. All art, be it writing, painting, film, dance, whatever, is a manipulation of time and space. It's an interpretation and a recreation of the facts, using various artifacts that point us in the direction of our personal truths.

Elisa Lorello

#46. 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

#47. All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

Plato

#48. To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.

Isadora Duncan

#49. Community is about sharing my life; about allowing the chaos of another's circumstances to infringe on mine; about permitting myself to be known without constraint; about resigning myself to needing others.

Sandy Oshiro Rosen

#50. Music is an expression of individuality; it's how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you experience the world, interpret it, and send it out there - express it - whether it's sculpture, dance or singing.

David Sanborn

#51. The theater is necessary. Dance is necessary. Song is necessary. The arts are necessary- they are a necessary part of our lives

Barack Obama

#52. [Robert Rauschenberg, 1925-2008] helped to obscure the lines between painting and sculpture, painting and photography, photography and printmaking, sculpture and photography, sculpture and dance, sculpture and technology, technology and performance art - not to mention between art and life.

Michael Kimmelman

#53. 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

#54. Dance is about movement and can be an art, but it's also about communication - with yourself, as much as with other people.

Jan Murray

#55. When dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.

Twyla Tharp

#56. I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film.

Tino Sehgal

#57. And remember whatever discipline you're in, whether you're a musician or a photographer, fine artist or a cartoonist, writer, a dancer, a singer, a designer... whatever you do, you have a thing that's unique. You have the ability to make art.

Neil Gaiman

#58. A gracefully effortless floating, flowing and flying are the essentials of the ballet's image of man.

Ayn Rand

#59. Historically and phenomenologically viewed, dance is the original art. All arts are found within it, in its undivided unity. The image, made dynamic through movement and countermovement, sings and speaks simultaneously ...

Gerard Van Der Leeuw

#60. I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years

Isadora Duncan

#61. I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.

James Gray

#62. Hard and dry, a chickpea is inedible.
Hard and dry, a heart is unlovable.
Presoak it in dance, music and art.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#63. It has taken me years of struggle, hard work, and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.

Isadora Duncan

#64. Dance as if life is a work of art.
Dance as if life is a stage for a dance drama.

Debasish Mridha

#65. It [ballet] is a perfect medium for the expression of spiritual love.

Ayn Rand

#66. Works of Art are meant to connect the human heart to inspiration, for cosmic consciousness to grow in the Supreme Reality rooted in Life and Being.

Nelly Mazloum

#67. Yet torture is above all an art, an artistic discipline just like literature , cinema, or contemporary dance. All detained in the City-State ghettos bitterly missed the torturers of yesteryears, those monsters who worked with the precision of a Swiss watch-maker.

Fiston Mwanza Mujila

#68. Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a tribal expression of religious powers or a corporate expression of societal values.

Jamake Highwater

#69. But art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows Beauty, that has music in its being and the color of sunsets in its headkerchiefs; that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance, too.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#70. I think it's nice if someone respects whatever their endeavor is, whether it's dance or art or stand-up comedy, to not assume that they're gonna be an overnight sensation, that it's this great craft that takes a lot of hard work to get good at.

Adrian Tomine

#71. Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#72. I'm opening gyms around the world to encourage people to get in shape and feel good about themselves; bringing art through dance to gyms to make my gyms different from other people's.

Madonna Ciccone

#73. Fuck Art, let's Dance!

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#74. 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

#75. The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

Martha Graham

#76. Don't keep your Muse locked up in the closet. Set them free to dance across the page and what they create will be a masterpiece.

Michelle C. Hillstrom

#77. In our world, love, sex, music, and dance are all integrated into one experience. Love, and the arts of music and dance go together.

Ron Galella

#78. This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#79. She is not a bulldog, only a woman pressed into the shape of a small jar, possibly attempting to dance in there. It shows in the way she places a seashell on a window sill, a red-painted chair in the corner: she is practiced in the art of creating a still life and taking up residence inside it.

Barbara Kingsolver

#80. They say life isn't about waiting for the storm to end, it's about learning to dance in the rain. You have dancing in the rain down to an art.

Jaclyn M. Hawkes

#81. The art of Mime encompasses all the feelings of the soul. The Dance, on the other hand, is essentially an expression of joy, a desire to follow the rhythms of the music.

August Bournonville

#82. An image, a dance step, a song may function from time to time as entertainment, but the root and full practice of the arts lies in the recognition that art is power, an instrument of communion between the self and all that is important, all that is sacred.

Peter London