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Quotes About Movement

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
~ Ted Shawn
If you dance with your heart, your body will follow.
~ Mia Michaels
Kung fu lives in everything we do. It lives in how we put on a jacket and how we take off a jacket. It lives in how we treat people. Everything is kung fu.
~ Jackie Chan
Natural movement is the shortest way to an effective result. Like the way the water runs, it always finds the right way.
~ Vladimir Vasiliev
My whole theory about art is the disparity that exists between form, masses and movement.
~ Alexander Calder
A line is a dot that went for a walk.
~ Paul Klee
Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.
~ Mikhail Baryshnikov
Our aim is to take our art to the world and make people understand what it is to move.
~ David Belle
The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.
~ Robert Genn
I became an animal painter because I loved to move among animals. I would study an animal and draw it in the position it took, and when it changed to another position I would draw that.
~ Rosa Bonheur
I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such a drawn-out regression in the plastic arts.
~ Richard Schmid
Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Dance is the stepchild of the arts.
~ Twyla Tharp
In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
~ Martha Graham
I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else.
~ Joe Rogan
The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.
~ Andy Goldsworthy
The rhythm is below me, the rhythm of the heat. The rhythm is around me, the rhythm has control. The rhythm is inside me, the rhythm has my soul.
~ Peter Gabriel
The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.
~ Joseph Campbell
Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years. I didn't get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
~ Agnes Denes
I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.
~ Lou Reed
Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.
~ Victor Hugo
Dance is an art, so day by day, it's growing and there are new things that can be done.
~ Stephen Boss
Good swiping is an art in itself.
~ Jules Feiffer
Ground which can be freely traversed by both sides is called accessible.
~ Sun Tzu