Architecture Quote by Havelock Ellis

Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that expressthemselves…

— Havelock Ellis

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

Architecture is a wrapping for the human body, and dance is the finest expression of the body.

— Santiago Calatrava

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

— Ted Shawn

Art is the act of doing work that matters while dancing with the voice in your head that screams for you to stop.

— Seth Godin

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 most fundamental of all art forms.

— Twyla Tharp

I believe that dance was the first art. A philosopher has said that dance and architecture were the first arts. I believe that dance…

— Martha Graham

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

— Shirley MacLaine

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it…

— Havelock Ellis

I've never had a problem with the old truism about dancing to architecture. I think you can dance to architecture. There's some pretty funky…

— Rob Chapman

An image, a dance step, a song may function from time to time as entertainment, but the root and full practice of the arts…

— Peter London