“I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what is too deep to find for words.” — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
I see the dance being used as a means of express what is too deep, too fine for words. — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
It is this mission of the dancer to contribute to the betterment of all mankind. — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
I have lived so long because in those moments when I am dancing, I am beyond time and space. — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance. — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
The Gods have meant That I should dance And in some mystic hour I shall move to unheard rhythms Of the cosmic… — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
It was then that my religious consciousness emerged to flower years afterward into definite forms of religious dancing in which there is… — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with… — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
When you are fifty, you're neither young nor old; you're just uninteresting. When you are sixty, and still dancing, you become something… — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
I want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and when it is all over not to have the feeling… — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
I have performed for thousands when they found me exotic, the vogue, daring, but I have danced, at any given time, for… — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
Dancing of late years has been degraded to the narrow limits and low professionalism of mere mechanical proficiency, associated with the most… — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
When you are fifty, you're neither young nor old; you're just uninteresting. When you are sixty, and still dancing, you become something of a… — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share
every artist is both male and female, and ... sometimes, the two great elements are in conjunction with him, so that all by himself… — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share
“I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what is too deep to find for words.” — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share
We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds. — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share
As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and… — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share
How in the end can one possibly hold anyone responsible for our own underdeveloped visions, or undeveloped strength of character? — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share
It is this mission of the dancer to contribute to the betterment of all mankind. — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share
We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before… — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share
Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its… — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share
It was then that my religious consciousness emerged to flower years afterward into definite forms of religious dancing in which there is no sense… — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share
I see the dance being used as a means of express what is too deep, too fine for words. — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share
“The gods have meant that I should dance, and by the gods, I will dance!!! For in some mystic hour I shall move to… — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share
I have the financial morals of a goldfish, I can resist everything but temptation. — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share
