Dance Quote by Ruth St. Denis

It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.

— Ruth St. Denis

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

every artist is both male and female, and ... sometimes, the two great elements are in conjunction with him, so that all by himself…

— Ruth St. Denis

“I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what is too deep to find for words.”

— Ruth St. Denis

We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.

— Ruth St. Denis

As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and…

— Ruth St. Denis

How in the end can one possibly hold anyone responsible for our own underdeveloped visions, or undeveloped strength of character?

— Ruth St. Denis

It is this mission of the dancer to contribute to the betterment of all mankind.

— Ruth St. Denis

We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before…

— Ruth St. Denis

Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its…

— Ruth St. Denis

It was then that my religious consciousness emerged to flower years afterward into definite forms of religious dancing in which there is no sense…

— Ruth St. Denis

I see the dance being used as a means of express what is too deep, too fine for words.

— Ruth St. Denis