I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around. - Fred Astaire
Dance is music made visible. - George Balanchine
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance... is a celebration of that miracle. - Martha Graham
I want one word on my tombstone-dancer. - Agnes de Mille
If I could have said it, I shouldn't have had to dance it. - Anna Pavlova
The energy doesn’t end at the hands. I want such intensity that it feels like light is streaming from every finger.- Bob Fosse
How can we know the dancer from the dance?- William Butler Yeats
Dancing is like bank robbery. It takes split-second timing.- Twyla Tharp
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.- Agnes De Mille
I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.- Mikhail Baryshnikov
Great artists are people who find ways to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.- Margot Fonteyn
