Ruth St. Denis Born : January 20, 1879Died : July 21, 1968 Browse All Authors Top 26 quotes by Ruth St. Denis I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words. Ruth St. Denis danceinspirationalart The Gods have meant Ruth St. Denis danceheavenmoving I have lived so long because in those moments when I am dancing, I am beyond time and space. Ruth St. Denis spacedancinglong The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space. Ruth St. Denis spacedancereal We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds. Ruth St. Denis starssongnight As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love Ruth St. Denis denialand-loveunderstanding Right here where you and I stand, we shall behold a true and radiant world. In that world, we shall dance only our divine essence. Ruth St. Denis divineessenceworld I see the dance being used as a means of express what is too deep, too fine for words. Ruth St. Denis dancemotivationalmean I have performed for thousands when they found me exotic, the vogue, daring, but I have danced, at any given time, for about ten people... They were the ones that left the theater forever different from the way they were when they came in. All of my long, long life, I have danced for those ten. Ruth St. Denis dancelongpeople It is this mission of the dancer to contribute to the betterment of all mankind. Ruth St. Denis missionsmankinddance Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature, art and religion. Ruth St. Denis receivingbodyart I want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and when it is all over not to have the feeling that I might have done better. Ruth St. Denis doneevilfeelings We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us. Ruth St. Denis denialballetdance You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God. Ruth St. Denis hinduismdenialdance We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts. Ruth St. Denis voicespiritualheart It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance. Ruth St. Denis balletdancedoe Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe. Ruth St. Denis gesturesablemen It was then that my religious consciousness emerged to flower years afterward into definite forms of religious dancing in which there is no sense of division between spirit and flesh, religion and art. Ruth St. Denis dancereligiousart When you are fifty, you're neither young nor old; you're just uninteresting. When you are sixty, and still dancing, you become something of a curiosity. And boy! if you hit seventy, and can still get a foot off the ground, you're phenomenal! Ruth St. Denis dancefeetboys I have the financial morals of a goldfish, I can resist everything but temptation. Ruth St. Denis goldfishmoraltemptation
