Architecture Quote by Martha Graham

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

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building,…

— 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

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

— Igor Youskevitch

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah…

— Robert Pinsky

I believe that dance is the oldest, noblest and most cogent of the arts. I believe that dance is the most perfect symbol of…

— Ted Shawn

The first expression of religion was the dance, and the first motive of the dance was religion.

— La Meri

My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the wave.

— Isadora Duncan

I was the first person in my family who was ever interested in dance, or fine art of any kind for that matter -…

— Misty Copeland

The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive man tens…

— Curt Sachs

Any work of art must first of all tell a story.

— Robert Frost