You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels - a leaf feels, a storm feels - what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it's a cultivated speech.

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.

We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.

You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels - a leaf feels, a storm feels - what right have you to do that? You have to have speech, and it's a cultivated speech.

Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.

Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.

I believe that we learn by practice.