Dancer Quotes

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All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure… — Saint Augustine
A correct execution of an adagio is the ne plus ultra of our art; and I look on it as the touch-stone of the dancer. — Carlo Blasis
Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground. — Martha Graham
The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost of unending effort… — W. Somerset Maugham
A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped. — Marcel Proust
Afro-Caribbean influences are in me as a creative being the same way Spanish influences were in Picasso's work. I think the notion of labels -… — Garth Fagan
Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape. — Wystan Hugh Auden
A silent figure is the dancer, true but still, words become dance, and all things there express'd. — Andre Bjerke
What is dance? I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place,… — Ray Bolger
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not… — Deborah Bull
Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives... So train the whole person, not just the dancer. — Deborah Bull
Though I soon became typecast in Hollywood as a gangster and hoodlum, I was originally a dancer, an Irish hoofer, trained in vaudeville tap dance.… — James Cagney
Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine. — Mason Cooley
But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises. In the same way the lifted leg… — Agnes de Mille
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. — Agnes de Mille
Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing. — Ninette de Valois
The dancer of the future will be one whose body & soul have grown so harmoniously together that the natural language of the soul will… — Isadora Duncan
The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled by the profound… — Isadora Duncan
If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know. — Katherine Dunham
Dancers are a great breed of people. And they really want to dance so you don't have to beg them to work. However, dancers sometimes… — Suzanne Farrell

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