"When the music and dance create with accord...their magic captivates both the heart and the mind."

-- Jean-Georges Noverre

#Dance Quotes #Heart Quotes #Magic Quotes

“Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.”

Source : Shakti Gawain (1995). “Return to the Garden: A Journey of Discovery”, New World Library
“To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating man from their equation that the makers of history can predict the future, and the writers of history can give a pattern to the past.”
“I've been filming time lapse flowers continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for 35 years. To watch them move is a dance I will never get tired of. Their sensual beauty immerses us with color, smell, taste and touch.”
“It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well.”

Source : "'Why Not Have Our Own World?' Interview with Andrzej Wajda". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July 2005.
“To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.”
“We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back.”

Source : Tracy Chevalier (2010). “Remarkable Creatures: A Novel”, p.182, Penguin
“As a kid, I used to be equal parts drawn to and horrified of the circus. They would have these beautiful canvas posters for Lobster Boy, bearded women, and this and that.”
“After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble.”

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