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.
There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost.
Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.
What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.
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.
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.
You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of the body results in dance and you become a dancer, not just a human being.
To me, the body says what words cannot. I believe that dance was the first art.
At the time I started in ballet they were dancing ‘The Spirit of Champagne’ on pointe, in Paris. I thought, ‘I don’t want to dance the spirit of champagne, I want to drink it!
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that others are behind the time.
You are unique and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost.
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.
‘Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
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.
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.