Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

... when I left the stage door and sought my orientation among real people I was in a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

the first night is the worst possible time to make a hard and fast criticism: the baby never looks its best on the day it is born.

I have never wanted to live to be old, so old I'd run out of friends or money.

I explained it when I danced it.