Quotes About Dance As An Art

#1. 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

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

Cathryn Louis

#3. If we want to make meaning, we need to make art. Cook, write, draw, doodle, paint, scrapbook, take pictures, collage, knit, rebuild an engine, sculpt, dance, decorate, act, sing - it doesn't matter. As long as we're creating, we're cultivating meaning.

Brene Brown

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.

Twyla Tharp

#7. This new form of dialogue that is bringing us to the art to which I have dedicated my life, is rooted in the deepest and most beautiful part of being human.

Alicia Alonso

#8. When it rains it pours. Maybe the art of life is to convert tough times to great experiences: we can choose to hate the rain or dance in it.

Joan Marques

#9. I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.

Sally Kirkland

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

August Bournonville

#11. As a young kid I was in love with breakdancing. I practiced the uprock style, which is a battle style of dance that looks like fighting. It comes from the gangs in New York in the 1960s and '70s. It's beautiful, almost like a martial art, and it can be funny, too, because you make fun of each other.

Jose Parla

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

Plato

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

Isadora Duncan

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

James Gray