It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

If I can't dance, I don't care if my dances are ever done again!

Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.

It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely.