Absurdity Quote by Clark M. Clifford

It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight.

— Jean-Georges Noverre

There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.

— Patrick Swayze

I think of dance as a constant transformation of life itself.

— Merce Cunningham

The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as is the folk history…

— Jamake Highwater

“As war becomes dishonored and its nobility called into question those honorable men who recognize the sanctity of blood will become excluded from the…

— Cormac McCarthy

All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human…

— Wade Davis

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

— Voltaire

“I tell you this. As war becomes dishonored and its nobility called into question those honorable men who recognize the sanctity of blood will…

— Cormac McCarthy

All we really want to do is dance.

— Joseph Campbell

Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a tribal expression…

— Jamake Highwater

“All of the ills of mankind, all of the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books ...have arisen merely from a lack of skill…

— Molière