Quotes About Art

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.

Technique-bodily control-must be mastered only because the body must not stand in the way of the soul's expression.

Dance has such an intensity to it. You become, in a way, an intense person.

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

We have our brush and colors - paint Paradise and in we go.

There is no wide road which leads to the Muses.

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.

I teach the art of turning anguish into delight.

I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary.

How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

I see little more important to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.

Art functioning as propaganda is not art.

Artistic inspiration ignores the law of supply and demand.

The muse is blind as Cupid and skittish as Diana.

A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.

Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man.

Coaching is an art and I'm not going to let anyone change me.

No one believes in God any more, but everyone believes in Bach.

Dance is such a stressful environment.

One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters.

Even those truths that are painful will ultimately increase my wisdom, undergird my strength, make possible my art.

Certain music is terrifically inspirational and it is possible, months or even years afterwards, to look at a painting and remember the music that was playing during its execution.