Art Quote by Jose Limon

I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals…

— Martha Graham

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is…

— Charles Baudelaire

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

The dance, just as the performance of the actor, is kinesthetic art, art of the muscle sense. The awareness of tension and relaxation within…

— Rudolf Arnheim

Dance is the landscape of man's soul.

— Martha Graham

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

I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.

— Ted Shawn

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

— Alvin Ailey

Dance, one of the oldest forms of artistic expression, requires only the human body for its realization.

— Igor Youskevitch

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 in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a tribal expression…

— Jamake Highwater

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.

— Agnes De Mille