All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

It's not my job to look beautiful. It's my job to look interesting.

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

I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.

No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.

Dancers are the messengers of the gods.

When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it's the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.