Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
I see dance as glue for a community.
In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.
I had always seen myself as a star; I wanted to be a galaxy.
Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.
You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas... when you actually do something physical.
Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying to solve a problem; it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.
The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.
To survive, you've got to keep wheedling your way. You can't just sit there and fight against odds when it's not going to work. You have to turn a corner, dig a hole, go through a tunnel - and find a way to keep moving.
Nobody worked harder than Mozart. By the time he was twenty-eight years old, his hands were deformed because of all the hours he had spent practicing, performing, and gripping a quill pen to compose. That's the missing element in the popular portrait of Mozart.
I don't hate language. I have my own language, but I also enjoy the English language. Obviously, you don't read a lot of literature and not care about language.
I realize that dancers have worked long and hard for standards. However, on occasion, I think that it's good to examine one's heart and ask why are we dancing.
Walt Disney was a master of the human psychology. His sense of timing, sense of speed. In a sense, those cartoons are like Rorschach tests.
There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.
My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'
My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.
What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity.
