41 Quotes by Merce Cunningham

You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.

My dance classes were open to anybody, my only stipulation was that they had to come to the class every day.

You have to love dancing to stick to it,

I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing.

The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion.

There are no fixed points in space,

I think of dance as a constant transformation of life itself.

Anything can feed you, depending on the way you look at it.

Falling is one of the ways of moving.