#dance

My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#aim #create #deepest #emanate #experience

The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing. ↗

— Doris Humphrey

#art #believes #cannot #dancer #dancing

The great thing about being the son of Maya Angelou is that I had the good fortune to grow up around some of the greatest black artists, dancers, singers, musicians, and actors of our time. ↗

— Guy Johnson

#angelou #around #artists #being #black

And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#analyze #any #character #charm #comedic

Depression is about anger, it is about anxiety, it is about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its way quite unique. It is the illness of identity, it is the illness of those who do not know where they fit, who lose faith in the myths they have so painstakenly created for themselves. [...] It is a plague - especially if you add in its various forms of expression, like alcoholism, anorexia, bulimia, drug addiction, compulsive behaviour of one kind or another. They're all the same things: attempts to avoid disappearance, or nothingness, or chaos. ↗

— Tim Lott

#depression #faith #identity #anger

I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium. ↗

— Gene Kelly

#dance #i #medium #motion #motion picture

I danced with passion to spite the music. ↗

— Gelsey Kirkland

#i #music #passion #spite

My heart has always been in more up-tempo music you can dance to. ↗

— Jordan Knight

#been #dance #heart #more #music

After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly. ↗

— John Landis

#blues #blues brothers #brothers #correctly #dancers

If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light. ↗

— Max von Laue

#arrangement #basic #basic principles #corresponding #decisive