If you look at most of the Royal Houses in Europe, the inbreeding was pretty outstanding.
A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling.
The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space.
Wherever there are four walls, consciousness of direction is far keener.
Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training.
Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.
The dance is the mother of the arts, The dance breaks down the distinction of body & soul.
Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not.
In a fire, you have to be thoughtful; you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there yet, despite the Stanford degree.
I am an owner who prefers to stay behind the scenes and allow my staff to do what they do best.
You don't do things for shock value anymore, because that's not even the language of today. At least, that's not what interests me. If I do it, it's because I want to see things in another way, not necessarily because I want to shock anybody.