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
The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than 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
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 Image
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 Image
“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
We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds. — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
It is this mission of the dancer to contribute to the betterment of all mankind. — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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
