Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.

If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.

In creative endeavors luck is a skill.

The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.