Art Quote by Havelock Ellis

Dance ... is life, or becomes it, in a way that other arts cannot attain. It is not in stone, or words or tones,…

— Baker Brownell

Dance is the most intimate art, the most unbrainy art, because it is done wholly with the body, which is so limited in its…

— Joan Acocella

Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.

— Twyla Tharp

Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.

— Shirley MacLaine

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

Dance is movement, and movement is life.

— Ludmilla Chiriaeff

With dancing, so much is about sexuality and sensuality and without life experience it becomes much more of a performance, rather than a living,…

— Nigel Lythgoe

Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments.

— Alvin Ailey

dance is simply the refinement of human movement - walking, running, and jumping. We are all experts. There should be no art form more…

— Twyla Tharp

Dance is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual

— Anna Pavlova

Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself.

— Jean Dubuffet

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

— Merce Cunningham