“The body is a reservoir of all sorts of tensions and dark forces. And it’s also the potential source of amazing energy. This thing wants to live. It is a powerful engine.”

Art – when it is really doing what it should do – teaches abstract thinking; it teaches teamwork; it teaches people to actually think about things that they cannot see.

Movement begins to negotiate the distance between the brain and the body and it can be surprising what we learn about each other.

An artist should… bring into the world some vision. Dancers should ask, “What is their work in the service of?”

The brain (is) a reservoir of images, dreams, fears, associations, language. And its potential we can’t even begin to understand.

The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.

Whereas the work is understood to be traceable to a source (through a process of derivation or “filiation”), the Text is without a source – the “author” a mere “guest” at the reading of the Text.

But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.

As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse.

A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: either he abandons all earthly interests, or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.

All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.

All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.

Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.