Ballet Quote by Jean-Georges Noverre

To dance at all is to confront oneself. It is the art of honesty.

— Shirley MacLaine

Well was it said by a man of sagacity that dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable folly, and that the best way…

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.

— Nazanin Boniadi

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

— Merce Cunningham

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

Dancing of late years has been degraded to the narrow limits and low professionalism of mere mechanical proficiency, associated with the most frivolous... phases…

— Ruth St. Denis

Dancing serves no necessary use, no profitable, laudable, or pious end at all. It is only from the inbred pravity, vanity, wantonness, incontinency, pride,…

— William Prynne

A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won't…

— Martha Graham

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is…

— Agnes de Mille

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.

— Twyla Tharp

Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.

— George Bernard Shaw

The world is full of ways for people to dance. Concert dance doesn't get its due.

— Judith Jamison