Art Quote by Curt Sachs Download Open image “The dance is the mother of the arts, The dance breaks down the distinction of body & soul.” — Curt Sachs ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Body Break Breaking down Dance Dancing Distinction Mother Parenting Soul
The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift… — Plato Copy Share Image
Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do. — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
In the dance the boundaries between body and soul are effaced. The body moves itself spiritually, the spirit bodily. — Gerard van der Leeuw Copy Share Image
The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Movement has the capacity to take us to the home of the soul, the world within for which we have no name. Movement reaches… — Anna Halprin Copy Share Image
Historically and phenomenologically viewed, dance is the original art. All arts are found within it, in its undivided unity. The image, made dynamic through… — Gerard van der Leeuw 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
The adult who puts his arm around his companion in the ballroom, and the child in the roadway, skipping in a round dance -… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life. — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
Wherever there are four walls, consciousness of direction is far keener. — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
It removes the limitations of his body, extinguishes his consciousness, and pours the divine spirit into him. The whirl dance is the purest form… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
In Europe we have the "loss of self" motif clearly illustrated in the whirl dances of the Russians sects of the Molokani in Armenia…All… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
The superhuman power which exhiliration and hypnosis bring to a dancer is shown especially clearly in his almost inconceivable staying powers in a state… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
The dance in which the men form one row, the women another, and dance with and opposite each other in a form of love… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
In the earliest cultures any tie between the dancers is slight. In a higher level the choral dancers almost always touch one another and… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
The English dance unites the guests of an evening by the spell of rhythmical movement into a chance casual community. — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living. — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
