Art Dance Quotes

I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that.

I think it started since I was born, I always had a need to express myself, you know, as a human being, and I found that it felt right when I expressed myself through art, dance, through acting, so it kind of happened naturally.

We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a measure of how we're doing as individuals and as a civilization, so maybe we should be worried.

Perhaps, you know, new laws, new domains of potential openness are occurring as the universe ages, and complexity previously disallowed is now possible, and we are that complexity. We are nature moving out of its genetic phase - a phase under the control of chemical genes, which are physical structures, in to an epigenetic phase, a phase of culture ruled by codes, transformable culturally confined codes - mathematics, religion, philosophy, art, dance, humor.

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

Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

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.'

I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.

The dance is the mother of all languages.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

We mainly focus on putting music, art, dance, theater, all forms of art, back into the community, so the community can put it into the world.

Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!

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.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.

Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, Dance, Dance 'till you drop.

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

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

When you take dancing lessons, you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps. It can go on for a long time. And then one day, you just learn to dance, and it is so different.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well.

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

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

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

Dance in the most perishable of the arts. Ballets are forgotten, ballerinas retire, choreographers die--and what remains of that glorious production which so excited us a decade ago, a year ago, or even last night?

Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.

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.

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

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

There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space.

Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

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.