Movement Quotes

2728 Movement quotes by 1884 unique authors

I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting… — Martha Graham
If the dance is right, there shouldn't be a single superfluous movement. — Fred Astaire
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
If we seek the real source of the dance, if we go to nature, we find that the dance of the future is the dance… — Isadora Duncan
Let us first teach little children to breathe, to vibrate, to feel, and to become one with the general harmony and movement of nature. Let… — Isadora Duncan
My art is just an effort to express the truth of my being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long years to find… — Isadora Duncan
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
I describe things in terms of body movements. I dance a bit to describe what sort of movement it ought to make, and that's a… — Brian Eno
Human beings are born with the instinct to express themselves through movement. Even before he could communicate with words, primitive man was dancing to the… — Bob Fosse
A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won't settle… — Martha Graham
My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement. — Martha Graham
Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind… — Doris Humphrey
Knowledge passes from dance teacher into the student through the process of mane, which is often translated as imitation, but learning to dance is more… — Mineko Iwasaki
I love the whole world of dance, because dancing is really the emotions through bodily movement. And however you feel, you just bring out the… — Michael Jackson
The body is a reservoir of all sorts of tensions and dark forces. And it's also the potential source of amazing energy. This thing wants… — Bill T. Jones
Dance is about movement and can be an art, but it's also about communication - with yourself, as much as with other people. — Jan Murray
When movement becomes ecstatic, then this is dance. When the movement is so total there is no ego, then it is dance. — Rajneesh
Man has used human rhythmic movement as raw material out of which to create works of art, as the composer of music uses sound, the… — Ted Shawn
How do you know a partner is right for you? That has everything to do with knowing each other and practicing together until you work… — Unknown Author

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