Art Quote by Robert Gottlieb

Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts . . .

— Shana Alexander

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

“Isadora Duncan Dancing Like sculpture at first. Then, as if the sun rose in her, long gesture. A small smile; then very much so.…

— Kinga Fabo

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.

— Isadora Duncan

At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers…

— Alice Walker

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 theme of the dance was "Great Romances," or some such nonsense. There were projections of supposedly great couples from the past on the…

— Gabrielle Zevin

Professional dancers are known for their barely-there costumes.

— Cheryl Burke

Classical dance is a growing and ever-evolving art.

— Shobana

Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Dance in the most perishable of the arts. Ballets are forgotten, ballerinas retire, choreographers die--and what remains of that glorious production which so excited…

— Jack Anderson