They Are Poets Of Gesture.

I Can Always Invent Movement, And Sometimes It Can Be Fitted Into The Right Place, But That Is Not Choreography. It Is The Music That Dictates The Whole Shape Of The Work. I Do Not Believe In The Permanence Of Anything In Ballet Save The Purely Classical.

First Comes The Sweat. Then Comes The Beauty If You're Very Lucky And Have Said Your Prayers.

Most Ballet Teachers In The United States Are Terrible. If They Were In Medicine, Everyone Would Be Poisoned.

I Don't Have A Past. I Have A Continuous Present. The Past Is Part Of The Present, Just As The Future Is. We Exist In Time.

God Creates, I Do Not Create. I Assemble And I Steal Everywhere To Do It - From What I See, From What The Dancers Can Do, From What Others Do.