1,434 Quotes About Dance

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.

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

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time

Dancing was something to be taken very seriously when engaged in and otherwise put out of mind.

The world of dance is a natural world from which civilization has divorced many of us by making it appear remote - something reserved for the few who have a special talent.

I explained it when I danced it.

Ballet is more than a profession - it is a way of life.

She not only taught dance but self-discipline, self-respect, responsibility and determination, the values that people keep with them forever.

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.