Author of quotes: Paul Valéry. Page 3

Walking implies a certain goal. This is the action toward a certain object, which we strive to achieve. [...] Quite another thing - dance. Of course, it also represents a system of actions, but these actions in themselves. He might not be sent. And if he pursues some goal, it is only an ideal goal, a certain state, a certain delight, a Ghost of a flower, the culmination of life, the smile that finally appears on the face of the one who conjured it on the empty space. Therefore, the task of dance is not to exercise some kind of completed action, which ends in some point of our environment, but to create and exciting, to maintain a certain state via a periodic movement performed often in place movement, which is almost completely indifferent to the visible and which is generated and regulated by auditory rhythms.