Dancer Quotes

“The human body is the best work of art.”
― Jess C. Scott

“A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement”
― Jess C Scott

“Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment.”
― Erol Ozan

“I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“We dance to seduce ourselves. To fall in love with ourselves. When we dance with another, we manifest the very thing we love about ourselves so that they may see it and love us too.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Yatho Hasta thatho Drishti, Yatho Drishti thatho Manah
Yatho Manah thatho Bhaava, Yatho Bhaava thatho Rasa”
― Natyashastra

“I love you more eternal than pi.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Feversong

“Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.”
― Shah Asad Rizvi

“Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.”
― Shah Asad Rizvi

“Through synergy of intellect, artistry and grace came into existence the blessing of a dancer.”
― Shah Asad Rizvi

“He's at ease, his body sculpted to the music, his shoulder searching the other shoulder, his right toe knowing the left knee, the height, the depth, the form, the control, the twist of his wrist, the bend of his elbow, the tilt of his neck, notes digging into arteries, and he is in the air now, forcing the legs up beyond muscular memory, one last press of the thighs, an elongation of form, a loosening of human contour, he goes higher and is skyheld.”
― Colum McCann, Dancer

“Every dance has a purpose and every dancer has a destiny.”
― Oliver Phipps, A Tempest Soul

“I don’t care if you dance for other men, or even women, but I don’t want his f*cking hands anywhere near you again. And if he touches you again, his blood will be on your hands.”
― V.B. Emanuele, Hollywood Comes Home

“I’m not losing you again. You’re only mine and I’ll f*cking m*rder anyone who challenges me.”
― V.B. Emanuele, Hollywood Comes Home

“I thought seeing you again was going to hurt, but the moment I saw you, I knew it was not seeing you that was killing me.”
― V.B. Emanuele, Hollywood Comes Home

“Forever used to scare me. In my world, nothing is forever. But when I’m with you, forever seems doesn’t seem long enough.”
― V.B. Emanuele

“Girl dancer! Oh you shifting
Of all that passes into steps: how you manage that!
And the eddy at the end, a tree made from a vortex,
Does it not take full possession of the swirling year?

And the tip of your tree, does it not blossom
Quietly above you, from your spinning? Is it not
Your limitless warmth, the sun,
The summer, its heat?

But your tree of ecstasy bears,
Gives quiet fruit: the flagon streaked with ripeness,
And the vase riper still.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus

“Oh arrive and leave. You were still half a child,
Completing a dancing pose for but a moment,
The pure form of a star constellation, which is
One of the ways in which we overcome the mindless random order

Of Nature, also just for a moment. For it was only when Orpheus sang
That Nature awoke and heard, was quickened in alertness.
Though far away in time, this stirred you. And you were somewhat
Surprised that a tree considered so slowly and hesitated

To join with you in hearing it.
You sensed the very place where the lyre
Raised itself aloft -; the mid-point which has never been heard.

For you ventured your beautiful steps
And you hoped, one day in holy celebration
To alter the course and countenance of your friend.
(Her friend is himself.)”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus

“Dance is the hidden language of the soul.”
― Martha Graham

“Great dancers are not great because of thei technique. They are great because of their passion.”
― Martha Graham

“The bench again left someone, in wait of someone, by shedding tears in the eyes.....”
― Khushi Kaul

“Think of it this way. I’m like the end of the movie.”
“The end of what movie?”
“You know how in the movies there’s always this person who wishes they were super successful, and then they get everything they thought they ever wanted. The fame, the money. All of it. Time passes, and they realize it’s not enough and long for the simple life when they did art for art’s sake. When there were no pressures or fake people. They give it all up and go back to being ordinary.” I flash him my coyest smile. “I just skipped all the fame, fortune, and chaos part and went straight to the ending where I dance for the fun of it.”
Tyler runs his hands over my hair and then cradles the back of my head. “The end of the movie, huh? There’s one thing missing from your plotline, you know that?”
“What?”
“A romantic interest.”
― D.G. Driver, Anything But Graceful: A Second Chance Romance Novel

“Dance has the power to create happy moments—timeless moments when all is forgotten except the dance. The endless complaints and struggles are erased by being present in the calmness and unity. It is a spiritual experience because it is unifying, healing, happifying, and uplifting.”
― Donna Goddard, Dance: A Spiritual Affair

“Dance can transcend logical, time-bound, and place-specific limitations.”
― Donna Goddard, Dance: A Spiritual Affair

“Who cares about judges when you have each other and you are creating something together? Winning only matters when you don’t have what dancing really is.”
― Donna Goddard, Dance: A Spiritual Affair

“Without persistence or resistance
we can never push forward,
Reach out our goals toward,
defy the laws of gravity or dance!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Flat Feet: An Autobiography of a Cosmic Dancer

“You can never force nature.
You just let it come so sure!
When it's ready
To spread its wings steady
And dry them waiting the sun
Not aware it'll be so much fun
to go towards the sky.
Then simply watch it fly...”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Flat Feet: An Autobiography of a Cosmic Dancer

“If the cowards who wage war
Were to fight on the front lines
No more discord would be on earth
And no more innocent people would die

-Ana Claudia (Scheurer) Antunes- great-granddaughter of a soldier killed in the First World War”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Flat Feet: An Autobiography of a Cosmic Dancer

“God is a dancer. He is not a creator in the sense of a painter; he is a creator in the sense of a dancer.”
― Osho, Nirvana

“I loved to dance for myself, but also for a man. Since the beginning of time, men have loved watching women dance – losing their minds, entranced like cobras hypnotised by snake charmers.”
― Dana Da Silva, The Shift: A Memoir