Kenneth Clark Quotes

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.

Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.

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

Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

Growing up, I was a dancer. I wanted to be a choreographer.

I'm a dancer. It's what I love to do more than anything.

I've got a three-year-old daughter. To picture her being a dancer, I'd absolutely love that. I'm in absolute awe of what they do. Just seeing them work, they're incredible.

It is entertainment; we mustn't forget that. Dance is entertainment. You can have the best technicians in the world, but they'll be boring to watch. It has to be about entertainment as well, but it's quality, grace.

One of the things that made Bob so unique and wonderful is that he had a genuine style, like Balanchine, like de Mille.

Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.

Dance is about never-ending aspiration.

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

People're artists they're doing something, taking a hunk of chaps, giving it some order, some form, and presenting it saying here is my little song and dance, my chaos.

Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.

My art is just an effort to express the truth of my being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long years to find even one absolutely true movement.

The dance is the highest symbol of life itself.

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris or the poet's pad in Greenwich Village, the artist must have some kind of order or he will proudce a very small body of work. To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

I had danced when I was younger, until I was about 12, and I always idealized it, as most young girls do, as the most beautiful art. It's an expression without words.

Fight with yourself when you paint, not with the model. A student is one who struggles with himself for order.

I do everything I know how in a dance.

What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.

I believe dance is a manifestation and celebration of the tenacity of the human spirit.

Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.

You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.

To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.