Top 32 Ted Shawn Quotes
#1. With the founding of Denishawn, Ted Shawn stated the artistic creed which was to guide the school, the company and, indeed, his whole life in dance.
Walter Terry
#2. The artist must be ecstatic about something.
Ted Shawn
#3. Oh God." Chloe closed her eyes, and when they reopened, he saw an excitement that suddenly made him nervous. "We're going all James Bond, aren't we? I'm so on board with the idea.
Monica McCabe
#4. Man has used human rhythmic movement as raw material out of which to create works of art, as the composer of music uses sound, the sculptor uses stone and wood, the painter his pigments, and the writer - words.
Ted Shawn
#5. I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.
Ted Shawn
#6. I love Prince Harry. Good looking and a bit of a rebel. Me and his dad are as thick as thieves and I knew Harry before I knew his dad so we've met a few times. I think he's amazing. And I think you can relate to him because he's made mistakes. He's cool.
Cheryl Cole
#7. But that closing night at Carnegie was without a hint of decline.
Walter Terry
#8. When it was all over, the dancers who had been long in Shawn's service were given either a substantial (for those days) cash reward (or severance pay) or a parcel of Jacob's Pillow land.
Walter Terry
#9. At the outset the matter of Ted's taste arose.
Walter Terry
#10. Love means always praying for greater happiness for everyone.
Ryuho Okawa
#11. I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.
Ted Shawn
#12. Near the end of his life he went into a tirade about people who had been "disloyal" to him, triggered by the most recent defection.
Walter Terry
#13. Ted did part of St. Denis's poetry tours with her.
Walter Terry
#14. If you don't have some sort of belief system by which to center your life, it's hard sometimes to understand why you would put up with your family.
Billy Corgan
#15. I believe that dance has the power to heal, mentally and physically.
Ted Shawn
#16. He raged and questioned and mourned. Eventually he found peace - not peace like some still pond, but peace like a river, jostling over rocks, hurtling over falls, whirling in eddies. Authentic, rugged peace.
Sarah Sundin
#17. People get comfort from music. They get joy from it and understanding from it, and most of all, the average person can't do without it in some sense.
Todd Rundgren
#18. Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.
Jesse Ventura
#19. Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
Ted Shawn
#20. The next twenty-five years after the disbanding of the male dancers saw Shawn bring a dance festival of world-wide significance into being.
Walter Terry
#21. Money is either a good or bad influence, according to the character of the person who possesses it.
Napoleon Hill
#22. A career in dance, however, was by no means even contemplated at this time.
Walter Terry
#23. Both Ruth and Ted visited him together and in separate sessions.
Walter Terry
#24. There were bickerings, outright fights, screaming tantrums, but Ted's vision of the Greater Denishawn had come true.
Walter Terry
#25. For economist the real world is often a special case.
Edgar Fiedler
#27. He adored telling this story of near disaster and how he had triumphed, just as he relished the report of how he went on stage every night on tour in his The Cosmic Dance of Shiva, requiring all manner of spinal flexibilities and related actions, while his sacroiliac was painfully out of place.
Walter Terry
#28. Part of me was flattered that he had brought me to his home, a place where no other girl had traveled. But I was his friend and the other girls probably wern't that.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#29. By disparaging ballet he succeeded very well in convincing the boys that ballet was not for Americans, that it was European in origin and in continuing character.
Walter Terry
#30. With Ted she was about to discover the God of Physical Love.
Walter Terry
#31. Diphtheria struck suddenly, almost fatally.
Walter Terry
