Art Quote by Susanne Katherina Langer

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

— Igor Youskevitch

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

— Ted Shawn

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

“To trace the development of mind from earliest times...requires...not a categorical concept, but a functional one… The most promising operational principle for this purpose…

— Susanne K. Langer

I think of dance as a constant transformation of life itself.

— Merce Cunningham

The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other…

— Ruth St. Denis

It is upon the length and breadth and span of a body sustained in muscular action that dance invokes its image.

— Merce Cunningham

Dancing of late years has been degraded to the narrow limits and low professionalism of mere mechanical proficiency, associated with the most frivolous... phases…

— Ruth St. Denis

At the root of all the various manifestations of dancing lies the common impulse to resort to movement to externalize emotional states which we…

— Jamake Highwater

The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.

— Martha Graham

Dance, like music, knows no geographical boundaries, no linguistic barriers and no racial divisions. All walls crumble where art is concerned. It is a…

— Vempati Chinna Satyam

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