The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.

The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.

The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

When you perform you are out of yourself-larger and more potent, more beautiful. You are for minutes heroic. This is power. This is glory on earth. And it is yours nightly.

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how…We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.