The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry…

The dance is the mother of the arts, The dance breaks down the distinction of body & soul.

— Curt Sachs

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

— Martha Graham

The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living.

— Curt Sachs

Look, spaghetti arms. This is my dance space. This is your dance space. I don't go into yours, you don't go into mine. You…

— Eleanor Bergstein

Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner…

— Lyall Watson

Let’s forget about time And dance our lives away

— Madonna Ciccone

We must have song and dance in our lives; we've had it ever since the inception of cinema in India. Our stories are very…

— Amitabh Bachchan

The dance is the mother of all languages.

— Robin G. Collingwood

Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother…

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

— Anonymous

My father would lift me high. And dance with my mother and me and then. Spin me around til I fell asleep. Then up…

— Luther Vandross

I grew up in New York, and I grew up with a mother who was an arts lover herself, and I went to these…

— Merritt Wever

Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythym of your life.

— Jacques d'Amboise

Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery - what it all means, the way the little bone near the ankle relates itself to the floor…

— Martha Graham