Technique-bodily control-must be mastered only because the…

The wise have mastered body, word, and mind. They are the true masters.

— Gautama Buddha

Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter.

— Louis Horst

Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear,…

— Shirley MacLaine

Dancers work and live from the inside. They drive themselves constantly producing a glow that lights not only themselves but audience after audience.

— Murray Louis

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

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are…

— Martha Graham

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.

— Duffy Daugherty

When you are dancing with your partner, for that two and a half minutes, you are in love with each other. You're corresponding with…

— Frankie Manning

Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.

— John Milton

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

— W. H. Auden

The only reason for mastering technique is to make sure the body does not prevent the soul from expressing itself.

— La Meri

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

— Herbert McCabe

We can't feel the rotation of the planet, but in some ways we can because our bodily systems are reacting to it and have…

— Jessa Gamble

My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.

— Eva Zeisel

Perhaps the most sophisticated and highly evolved system is that originated by Joseph Scogna. I was impressed by the profound insights into the relationship…

— Rudolph Ballentine