He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

Ted Shawn

When we dance we are the paintbrush, the easel, the paints and the artist.  Each step a stroke of the brush.  Each gesture a splash of paint.  The artist as art.

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

Miles Davis

The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it’s considered to be your style.

Fred Astaire

Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.

Twyla Tharp

To dance is to train, to envision, and to create out of nothing with only our bodies and space.  It is not sold like a painting or shared like a song, it is a fleeting creation, gone as it is performed.