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Havelock Ellis

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite.
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Dancing is the original form of artistic expression because it happens directly through a person's body and movement. In contrast, architecture represents the earliest form of art created outside the human body, and eventually, all art forms connect these internal and external expressions.

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