Quotes on Art Dance

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.

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance.

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer's art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories--when his dancing days are over.

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

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.'