Dance Quotes - Page 13

• 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

  Struggle, Passion, Creative

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• And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Laughter, Lost

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• God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

  George Balanchine

  Stealing, Ballet Teachers, Choreography

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• I'm not interested in a group of people with some sort of incredible homogeny,a group that can do the movement I want. I'm interested in people whocan take the movement somewhere.

  Graeme Murphy

  People, Groups, Movement

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• The world I'm interested in is the one where things are not named.

  Martha Graham

  World

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• The serious is the most difficult branch of dancing, it requires a close study, and cannot be duly appreciated but by connoisseurs and men of a refined and pure taste. She who excels in it deserves the highest applause. A correct execution of an adagio is the ne plus ultra of our art; I look on it as the touchstone of the dancer.

  Carlo Blasis

  Art, Dancing, Looks

  "The Theory of Theatrical Dancing: With a Chapter on Pantomime".

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• I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.

  Louise Brooks

  Dancing, Chaplin, Charlie

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• Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it has been from the days of Moses.

  William Cobbett

  Animal, People, Giving

  William Cobbett (2006). “Advice to Young Men”, p.33, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had for its basis difference; & the more unfit the vehicle, the more lively was the curiosity & intense the delights at seeing the difficulty overcome.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Differences, Dancing, Perfection

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria”, p.2701, e-artnow

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• My friends and I had taken dancing lessons, although none of us would ever admit it. In those depression days, a friend of my mother was trying to make a living by teaching dancing in the evening, in an upstairs dance studio. There was a back door to the place, and she arranged it so the young men could come up through the back way without being seen.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Mother, Teaching, Taken

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• Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Dancing, Magic, Genius

  Margot Fonteyn (1979). “The magic of dance”, British Broadcasting Corp.

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• Oh, 'tis jesting, dancing, drinking
  Spins the heavy world around.

  A. E. Housman

  Drinking, Dancing, World

  A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost of unending effort but, with all the forces of gravity against it, a fleeting poise in mid-air, a lovely attitude worthy to be made immortal in a bas-relief, it was lost as soon as it was gained and there remained no more than the memory of an exquisite emotion. So life, lived variously and largely, becomes a work of art only when brought to its beautiful conclusion and is reduced to nothingness in the moment when it arrives at perfection.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beautiful, Art, Memories

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• He [Gene Kelly] once told me dancing was a man's game, as much of a sport as baseball itself. And he made us believe that. He changed our minds and suddenly, all of America wanted to dance just like Gene Kelly.

  Liza Minnelli

  Sports, Baseball, Believe

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• The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.

  Jean Paul

  Running, Exercise, Climbing

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• O come ye in peace here, or come ye in war,
  Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar?

  Walter Scott

  War, Dancing, Lord

  'Marmion' (1808) canto 5, st. 12 ('Lochinvar' st. 3)

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• There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.

  John Selden

  Dancing, World, Fairy

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• She is your treasure, she must have a husband;
  I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day,
  And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.

  William Shakespeare

  Husband, Feet, Wedding Day

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 2, sc. 1, l. 32

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• When I play on my fiddle in Dooney
  Folk dance like a wave on the sea.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sea, Play, Wave

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Sacrifice, Fields, Depth

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• So if the dance is five minutes long, make yourself run for perhaps eight minutes. That way, you over-train and the dance will seem easier.

  Deborah Bull

  Running, Eight, Long

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• You can't reduce lactic acid, but you can increase your tolerance to it. I do this through running or cycling, but it's a good idea to match your training bout to the type of dance you do.

  Deborah Bull

  Running, Cycling, Ideas

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• The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

  Agnes de Mille

  Mirrors, Practice, Faults

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• Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.

  Diogenes

  Dancing, Virtue, Whistling

  Herakleitos, Diogenes (2011). “Herakleitos and Diogenes: Translated from the Greek by Guy Davenport”, p.56, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soul

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