Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.

Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.

No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

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.

Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.

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