Ernst Bacon famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Dancing is the body made poetic.
-- Ernst Bacon

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The Artist should not forget his mission, perhaps the most religious of all, of sustaining faith in the worthwhileness of art and thus of life.
-- Ernst Bacon

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A teacher's hardest lesson is to limit his explanation to the minimum.
-- Ernst Bacon

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I would rather instill in my amateur students love, than knowledge, of music.Â Left with only knowledge, they will at the end close their books and consign the course to forgetfulness.Â But if they have learned to love but the smallest part of the art, they are likely to pursue some phase of it the rest of their lives.
-- Ernst Bacon

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A man in music, as one in love, either lives it or talks about it; seldom both.
-- Ernst Bacon

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During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ***** followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.
The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he'll look at you as if you were a hummingbird. Dancers don't get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
When I am asked about influences, I always say I bow down to Fred Astaire, because when you look at him dancing you never look at his extremities, do you? You look at his centre. What you never see is the hours of work that went into the routines, you just see the breathtaking spirit and freedom.
Life is water, dancing to the tune of solids.
I love dancing and the salsa is just so sexy.
Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him.
We forgot we have Holy Body not less than our Holy Spirit.
When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.

Ernst Bacon famous quotes

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