top of page
Quote_1.png
Ted Shawn

"I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things."

Standard 
 Customized
"I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things."

Exlpore more American quotes

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Americans are so dedicated to their jobs."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"I was chased through a chateau in the Loire Valley by a bunch of American school girls."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American Jewish community is not going to survive by lining up against its common enemy."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect."

Explore more quotes by Ted Shawn

Quote_1.png
Ted Shawn
"I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written."
Quote_1.png
Ted Shawn
"Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made."
Quote_1.png
Ted Shawn
"I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things."
bottom of page