Modern dance isn't anything except one thing in my mind: the freedom of women in America.

Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.

I never thought of myself as being a genius. I don't know what genius is. I think a far better expression is a retriever, a lovely strong golden retriever that brings things back from the past, or retrieves things from our common blood memory

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.

The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.

There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.

Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.