"I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination. There is a great deal of outer space, distant from our daily lives, where I feel our imagination wanders sometimes. It will find a planet or it will not find a planet, and that is what a dancer does."

- Martha Graham

"Ballet technique is arbitrary and very difficult. It never becomes easy--it becomes possible. The effort involved in making a dancer's body is so long and relentless, in many instances painful, the effort to maintain the technique is

so grueling that unless a certain satisfaction is derived from the disciplining and the punishing, the pace could not be maintained." -Agnes de Mille

"First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty."

- George Balanchine