Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft.

Creativity is more about taking the facts, fictions, and feelings we store away and finding new ways to connect them.

Skill is how you close the gap between what you can see in your mind's eye and what you can produce; the more skill you have, the more sophisticated and accomplished your ideas can be. With absolute skill comes absolute confidence.

I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.

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

when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.