“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 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.

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

All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.

Self-actualized people…live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

The abstract kills, the concrete saves.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

The abstract kills, the concrete saves.

I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.