They are poets of gesture.

Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But I don't agree with that because policeman don't have to look beautiful at the same time.

First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell. We can't dance synonyms.

Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves

I could never make a ballet by wrinkling my brow and concentrating. If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how will you ever get it finished?