Quotes About Art

Artist in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

the doctor gestures at the X-ray where the lung crumples like a tossed poem.

I am intrigued by writers who garden and gardeners who write. The pen and the trowel are not interchangeable, but seem often linked.

El teatro hoy es más político que nunca solo por el hecho de seguir siendo teatro...

Karen Dandurand's view that Dickinson did not publish because poetry to her was never finished. She looked upon her verse as constantly in play and the work of a lifetime. Her attitude is reminiscent of Paul Valéry's assessment: "A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

Censorship is the height of vanity.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time.

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

The body is a sacred garment.

In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

To me, the body says what words cannot. I believe that dance was the first art.

Nothing is more revealing than movement. The body says what words cannot.

Dancing is very like poetry.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.

People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissastifaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is the time. It is just that others are behind the time.