"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." ~Scott Adams

"Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us". ~Roy Adzak

"Where words fail, music speaks". ~Hans Christian Andersen

"Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances". ~Maya Angelou

"Only the wise can dance the rhythm of life." ~ Anonymous

"Dance is music made visible." ~George Balanchine

"Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals." ~Charles Baudelaire

"Good choreography fuses eye, ear, and mind" ~Arlene Croce

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." ~Edgar Degas

"I shut my eyes in order to see." ~Paul Gauguin

"Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance." ~Martha Graham

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time." ~Thomas Merton

"Master technique and then forget about it and be natural." ~Anna Pavlova

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." ~Pablo Picasso

"To sing well and to dance well is to be well-educated." ~Plato

"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home." ~Twyla Tharp

"The road to success is always under construction." ~Lily Tomlin

"Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!" ~Constanze

 "You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart." ~Author Unknown

"To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful." ~Agnes De Mille

"Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels." ~Faith Whittlesey

"It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer." ~Shanna LaFleur

"Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order." ~Samuel Beckett

"Stifling an urge to dance is bad for your health - it rusts your spirit and your hips." ~Adabella Radici

"Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is not mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself." ~Havelock Ellis

"Dance is the hidden language of the soul." ~Martha Graham

"Next time you're mad, try dancing out your anger." ~Sweetpea Tyler

"Dancing is the world's favorite metaphor." ~Kristy Nilsson

"Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain." ~Author Unknown

"You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive." ~Merce Cunningham

"I think the reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that is has been the symbol of the performance of living." ~Martha Graham

“Be great and beautiful and good. Don’t say you can’t; you can!” ~Charles Sanders Pierce

"The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie." ~Agnes De Mille

"What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal." ~Anna Pavlova

"Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got." ~Janis Joplin

"We're frightened of what makes us different." ~Anne Rice

"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark." ~Agnes De Mille

"To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage." ~Georgia O'Keefe

"The artist is the voice of the people." ~Alice Walker

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions." ~Albert Einstein

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step." ~Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"Whether you think you can or think you can't, either way you are right." ~Henry Ford

"I believe arts education is vital for all children-it gave me the confidence and afforded me the artistic freedom to be who I am today."  ~ Marlee Matlin

“Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays." ~George Balanchine

"You can't see a painter or a writer or a musician if you just look at them, but you can see a dancer in a child if they've studied ballet for a year." ~"The Dancer and the Dance" movie

"Quitters never win and winners never quit." ~anonymous

"Dance isn't a form it's a way of life." ~anonymous

"Dancers are the athletes of God." ~Albert Einstein

"We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams."

"Whatever you want to do, do it. There are only so many tomorrows."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge" ~Albert Einstein

"To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking." ~Agnes De Mille

"If dancing were any easier it would be called football." ~anonymous

"The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing... there are times when the simple dignity of movement can fulfill the function of a volume of words. There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself. This is the dancer's justification for being, and his reason for searching further for deeper aspects of his art." ~Doris Humphrey, 1937

"A child sings before it speaks, dances almost before it walks. Music is in our hearts from the beginning." ~Pamela Brown

"Tomorrow's success begins today."

"Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear, the pain, you even forget who you are you become one with the music, the lights, indeed one with the dance." ~Shirley Maclaine

"You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart." ~Unknown

"Artists lead unglamorous daily lives of discipline and routine, but their work is full of passion. Each has a vision and feels responsibility to that vision." ~Merryl Brockway

"Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. It's the expression in time and movement, in happiness, joy, sadness and envy." ~Jaques D'ambroise

"To tap or not to tap...silly question!!" ~anonymous