attributed by George Melly in 1962 Source: Quote Investigator - Dancing Is a Perpendicular Expression of a Horizontal Desire http://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/09/11/dancing/
from Astaire's autobiography Steps in Time, 1959, p. 325.
Martin Landau: ‘Doubt Is Important’, Washington Times (December 25, 2016)
“Classical dance is the elegant expression of every movement.”
Original: La danza classica è l'espressione elegante di ogni movimento.
Source: prevale.net
Source: 1912, Les exposants au public', 1912, pp. 47, 49
Also quoted in "Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde by Charles Juliet" by Nicholas Lezard, in The Guardian (23 January 2010) http://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jan/23/conversations-samuel-beckett-van-velde
Three Dialogues (1949)
“I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of mankind — the landscape of the human soul.”
I Am A Dancer (1952)
Source: Blood Memory
Context: I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of mankind — the landscape of the human soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human being can be.
“The heart’s desire is expressed in blood.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
“Translates to: for a triangle, the result of a perpendicular with the half-side is the area.”
Source: Arijit Roy “The Enigma of Creation and Destruction”, p. 27 from the Ganitapada, quoted in "The Enigma of Creation and Destruction".
“I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.”
quote about the growing controversy between Mondrian and Van Doesburg. concerning the use of diagonal lines
Source: quote from a letter of Mondrian to Theo van Doesburg, undated, c. May 1918; as cited in Mondrian, -The Art of Destruction, Carel Blotkamp, Reaktion Books LTD. London 2001, p. 120
