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" The formal education that I received made little sense to me. "

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" I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart. "

" I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone's exhausted. Get focused, do it! "

" A commission is an invitation to fall in love. "

" If I didn't believe in myself as a dancer, I wouldn't choreograph. "

" Desire is the first thing a modern dancer should have. Skill can be developed. But if you don't have desire as a modern dancer, forget it. "

" I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren. "

" What we want from modern dance is courage and audacity. "

" Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism. "

" People often say to me, 'I don't know anything about dance.' I say, 'Stop. You got up this morning, and you're walking. You are an expert.' "

" In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock. "

" Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and in the 19th century, that was a breed that was just evolving. "

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

" Dance should not just divide people into audience and performers. Everyone should be a participant, whether going to classes or attending special events or rehearsals. "

" I had always seen myself as a star; I wanted to be a galaxy. "

" My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.' "

" Schubert had arguably the same melodic gift as Mozart, but even less support. He didn't have the early exposure, never got to travel anywhere, and yet generated and amassed a body of work that grew and developed and is very profound. "

" Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits. "

" A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things. "

" When I say I can see through clothes, sometimes I try to use it as an X-ray vision to look into the dancer and see who this dancer is right now, at this exact moment in time. I live inside them in a way. "

" Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. "

" I do not watch television, never have. "

" I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly. "

" Who a dancer is physically feeds into character for me. Always has. "

" I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot. "

" It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer. "

" We don't need to illustrate music; music illustrates itself. "

" This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age. "

" Walt Disney was a master of the human psychology. His sense of timing, sense of speed. In a sense, those cartoons are like Rorschach tests. "