Baker Brownell Quotes & Sayings

Dance ... is life, or becomes it, in a way that other arts cannot attain. It is not in stone, or words or tones, but in our muscles. It is a formulation of their movements. — Baker Brownell

Art matures. It is the formal elaboration of activity, complete in its own pattern. It is a cosmos of its own. — Baker Brownell

Though we live amid promiscuous pressures, spiritual clutter and forgetfulness, we probably still value the integrity of life. — Baker Brownell

Art arises in those strange complexities of action that are called human beings. It is a kind of human behavior. As such it is not magic, except as human beings are magical. Nor is it concerned in absolutes, eternities, "forms," beyond those that may reside in the context of the human being and be subject to his vicissitudes. Art is not an inner state of consciousness, whatever that may mean. Neither is it essentially a supreme form of communication. Art is human behavior, and its values are contained in human behavior. — Baker Brownell