All kinds Quote by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Dancing as an art, we may be sure, cannot die out, but will always be undergoing a rebirth. Not merely as an art, but…

— Havelock Ellis

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

— Agnes de Mille

“I believe that it is necessary for the Saints to have amusement, but it must be of the proper kind. I do not believe…

— Joseph Fielding Smith

Participation in the dance was entirely voluntary, a mental vow to worship the Mystery in this manner being expressed by a man ardently desiring…

— Edward S. Curtis

This dance was the dance of death. [The clowns] danced it for the wretched of the earth, that they might witness their own wretchedness.

— Angela Carter

“Dance is the ritual of immortality.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Dancing and ballets would undoubtedly take on a new lease on life, if the customs established by a spirit of fear and jealousy did…

— Jean-Georges Noverre

If words were adequate to describe fully what the dance can do, there would be no reason for all the mighty muscular effort, the…

— Jose Limon

“Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Dance is one of the most powerful forms of magical ritual...It is an outer expression of the inner spirit.

— Ted Andrews

The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.

— Martha Graham

In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred. It is a prayer for the future, a remembrance of the past…

— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes