Ruth St. Denis Quotes

Dancing is more than just moving body parts; it is a pathway of expressing your deepest inner thoughts.

Dance, to me, is an expression of who we are.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.

I am more expressive when I dance.

I explained it when I danced it.

Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

I find it hard to talk and say things, but I can always sing about them.

With dancing, so much is about sexuality and sensuality and without life experience it becomes much more of a performance, rather than a living, breathing entity from the soul.

I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.

What I couldn't say verbally I was able to express physically through the guitar.

The body says what words cannot.

My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

I think records and music are more appropriate and more respectful of the human soul than the churches are. And more respectful of the needs of humans to communicate with the aspects of themselves that are neglected by language.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Art is the skin of the soul.

I want to let my feet speak.

The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily motions.

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

... the movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul.

The body always expresses the spirit whose envelope it is. And for him who can see, the nude offers the richest meaning.

Speech is one symptom of affection; and silence one; the perfect communication is heard of none.

Music is the can-opener of the soul.

Dance is the pure language of the soul - it's been with us from the very beginning.