Dancer Quotes - Page 39

• Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye, but the dance lives on.

  Michael Jackson

  Eye, Twinkling, Dance Life

  "Dancing The Dream". Book by Michael Jackson, 1992.

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• I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Women, Flames, People

  Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.22, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• It was a tradition to represent a dancer frozen in a chosen position, like a snapshot. I broke away from this tradition by superimposing postures, blending light and motion and scrambling the planes.

  Sonia Delaunay

  Light, Snapshots, Frozen

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• Dancer, bride, runaway wife, radical filmmaker and pioneer -
  Shirley Clarke is one of the great undertold stories of American independent cinema.

  Manohla Dargis

  Independent, Wife, Pioneers

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• I'm not a great dancer. I know I'm not. But I know that I can move. I can throw shapes, just not in the right order.

  Mika

  Moving, Order, Shapes

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• My dancers are the real stars.

  Michael Flatley

  Stars, Real

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• If I can play one note and make you cry, then that's better than those fancy dancers playing twenty notes.

  Robbie Robertson

  Play, Twenties, Fancy

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• O, high the happy bosom heaves When love is in the dancer!

  Witter Bynner

  Love, Love Is, Bosoms

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• The sight filled the northern sky; the immensity of it was scarcely conceivable. As if from Heaven itself, great curtains of delicate light hung and trembled. Pale green and rose-pink, and as transparent as the most fragile fabric, and at the bottom edge a profound fiery crimson like the fires of Hell, they swung and shimmered loosely with more grace than the most skillful dancer.

  Philip Pullman

  Fire, Light, Sight

  Philip Pullman (1995). “Northern lights”

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• Beauty, like male ballet dancers, makes some men afraid.

  Mordecai Richler

  Beauty, Men, Ballet

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• As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers.

  Simon Beaufoy

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

  "Life on the hard shoulder" by Simon Beaufoy, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2008.

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• Diana Vishneva is not only a magnificent dancer but a magnificent actress - no one works harder or understands more.

  Robert Gottlieb

  Hard Work, Actresses, Diana

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• My son is a better dancer than me. I always try to encourage him in his endeavours.

  Mithun Chakraborty

  Son, Trying, Endeavour

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• Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained.

  Mithun Chakraborty

  Actors, Born, Good Actors

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• For me, a dancer is part of an artist’s entertainment - “backup dancer” isn’t even in my vocabulary.

  Laurieann Gibson

  Artist, Vocabulary, Entertainment

  "Laurieann Gibson: ‘Backup dancer’ isn’t even in my vocabulary". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. May 27, 2011.

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• When I first moved to New York I wanted to be a dancer, I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence.

  Madonna Ciccone

  New York, Hands, Years

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dancing, Flying, Bliss

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• It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Angel, Dancing, Flying

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• Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that expressthemselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. Music, acting, poetry proceed in the one mighty stream; sculpture, painting, all the arts of design, in the other. There is no primary art outside these two arts, for their origin is far earlier than man himself; and dancing came first.

  Havelock Ellis

  Art, Lying, Men

  havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

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• The deft white-stockinged dance in thick-soled
  shoes! Denmark's sanctuaried Jews!

  Marianne Moore

  Shoes, White, Dancing

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.132, Penguin

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• Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Competition, Actors

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• You ask what I have found and far and wide I go,
  Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's murderous crew,
  The lovers and the dancers are beaten into the clay,
  And the tall men and the swordsmen and the horsemen where are they?

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, House, Clay

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

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• Come swish around my pretty punk
  And keep me dancing still
  That I may stay a sober man
  Although I drink my fill.

  William Butler Yeats

  Drinking, Men, Dancing

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.268, Wordsworth Editions

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• ... in general, the Anglo-Irish do not make good dancers; they are too spritely and conscious; they are incapable of one kind of trance or of being seemingly impersonal. And, for the formal, pure dance they lack the formality: about their stylishness (for they have stylishness) there is something impromptu, slightly disorderly.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Dance, Kind, Conscious

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• The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant. We cannot train children along chicken wire to make them grow in the right direction. Tying them to stakes is frowned upon, even in Massachusetts.

  Ellen Goodman

  Children, Artist, Average

  Ellen Goodman (1986). “Close to Home”, Fawcett Books

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