109 quotes found
“Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.”
“Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.”
“Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world. I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing I realize...”
“Dancing is the loftiest the most moving the most beautiful of the arts because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life it is life itself.”
“The body says what words cannot.”
“Dancing is the body made poetic.”
“The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops.”
“Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once I”
“If you can walk you can dance. Zimbabwe saying Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”
“Music is the child of prayer the companion of religion.”
“Music is the art of the prophets the only art that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.”
“Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.”
“We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse our gestures our digestive tracts the lunar and seasonal cycles.”
“When I hear music I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times and to the latest.”
“The best most beautiful and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.”
“When words leave off music begins.”
“After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
“There is no feeling except the extremes of fear and grief that does not find relief in music.”
“Without music life is a journey through a desert.”
“I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.”
