Age Quote by Martha Graham

It's hard to dance after a certain age. All those athletic things - like looking up at my kneecaps - they're just not there…

— Ann Reinking

As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less…

— Deborah Bull

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

— Martha Graham

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

— Igor Youskevitch

In order that our art may arrive at the degree of the sublime which I demand and hope for, it is imperative for dancers…

— Jean-Georges Noverre

When you are fifty, you're neither young nor old; you're just uninteresting. When you are sixty, and still dancing, you become something of a…

— Ruth St. Denis

When you see the body outside of a costume and see the strength that it takes, people would look at dance a different way…

— Misty Copeland

I mean, when you grow up dancing, you have to become very comfortable in your own skin.

— Sharni Vinson

I love the physicality of instruments, and instruments as objects, like dancers are bodies.

— Bryce Dessner

I've been dancing since I was five. To me, dance is a visual representation of being free and empowered.

— Aditi Rao Hydari

This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age.

— Twyla Tharp

I can actually feel the interior body of a dancer. I have the ability to capture a split second... I want you to be…

— Richard MacDonald