Havelock Ellis Quotes

Dance means so much to me. It's always been such a huge part of my life.

And dance is wonderful because dance is so immediate.

I think of action as a dance. It's a riddle; it should have emotion in it.

I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful.

I always wanted to devote a certain part of my life to dance - my true being is to be a dancer.

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

Dance is so joyous.

I love the physicality of my job and how my mind and body are most happy when I'm expressing and moving. My face was always secondary to body alignment and the dynamism of making a moment come alive.

The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.

Dancing is my obsession. My life.

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

Dance excites me.

Ballet was so structured. I'd been craving something that could guide me.

Dancing is the personification of music, and music is an abstract expression of the human spirit. But still it's the act of communication, of making one feel. Otherwise it would just be gymnastics.

The dance is the highest symbol of life itself.

Dance expresses joy better than anything else.

Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

I learned to love dance for its own sake.

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

I loved dance.

The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.

The waltz is a very important part of my life. It's a very important way for me to express my positiveness, bringing humor to the world.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

You have to be a little crazy to be a dancer.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.