In life as in the dance: Grace glides on blistered feet.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Where words fail, music speaks.

Music was my refuge, I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Art is the imagination expressed through the senses.

Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.

Only the wise can dance the rhythm of life.

Dance isn't something that can be explained in words; it has to be danced.

What we play is life.

I believe that interpretation should be like a transparent glass, a window for the composer's music.

Dance till the stars come down from the rafters. Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop.

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself.

A dance is a measured pace, as a verse is a measured speech.

First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.

A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it.

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

Patience is an integral part of talent.

Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess.

If you really beleive music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.

When I dance, I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

A child sings before it speaks, dances almost before it walks, music is with us from the beginning.

Dance every performance as if it were your last.

On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

Music to me is like breathing - I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.

Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly, two.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

How inimitably graceful children are in general - before they learn to dance.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.

The only way to do it is to do it.

The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it. ::: ::: The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it. ::: :::

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

To give body and perfect form to your thought, this alone is what it is to be an artist.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

The high note is not the only thing.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious, the source of all art and science.

Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to know one.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

Move your neck according to the music.

I do not want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.

If you are looking for something to be brave about consider fine arts.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great becuse of their passion.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same.

You are lost the instant you know what the result will be.

All the sounds of the earth are like music.