Top 31 Bausch's Quotes
#1. Pina Bausch's motto was "Dance, otherwise we are lost." She really meant it, that dance was her answer to life and to the troubles and to the problems that can arise. That was her way to deal with everything, to dance.
Wim Wenders
#2. Raimund Hoghe is a little man with a spinal deformity who was once Pina Bausch's dramaturge.
Robert Gottlieb
#3. I'm not interested in how people move, but what moves them.
Pina Bausch
#4. In every circumstance, all my life, my mind shows me the possible bad outcome: someone walks down steps, and before I can do anything to head the image off, I see a fall, a catastrophe.
Richard Bausch
#6. Every really good book was written a little at a time, over time, in tremendous confusion and doubt.
Richard Bausch
#8. I want to feel something, as a person. I don't want to be bored.
Pina Bausch
#9. My mother used to say, when the time is right, you don't need to have a committee meeting about it.
Richard Bausch
#10. When you reach a place where you feel blocked, lower your standards and keep on going. There is no possible way to do permanent damage to a piece of writing. You cannot ruin it. You can only make it a little better a little at a time.
Richard Bausch
#11. There are situations of course that leave you utterly speechless. All you can do is hint at things. Words, too, can't do more than just evoke things. That's where dance comes in again.
Pina Bausch
#12. He turned in a small circle and looked at the grass, the rocks, the river, the raining sky with its tatters and torn places, the shining bark of the wet trees all around. He could not think of any prayers now. But every movement felt like a kind of adoration.
Richard Bausch
#13. I didn't want to imitate anybody. Any movement I knew, I didn't want to use.
Pina Bausch
#14. Repetition is not repetition, ... The same action makes you feel something completely different by the end
Pina Bausch
#15. I am more interested in what moves people, than how they move.
Pina Bausch
#17. To understand what I am saying, you have to believe that dance is something other than technique. We forget where the movements come from. They are born from life. When you create a new work, the point of departure must be contemporary life
not existing forms of dance.
Pina Bausch
#19. The fact is, for all the critics' talk about me as a realist, I'm making everything up - everything. It is all about imagining with me.
Richard Bausch
#20. The things we discover for ourselves are the most important.
Pina Bausch
#21. Mostly you write to find out what you have to say.
Richard Bausch
#22. I'm not so interested in how they move as in what moves them.
Pina Bausch
#23. Once, Pina Bausch was about something, however disagreeable.
Robert Gottlieb
#24. Once, I thought I had a novel, and it turned out it was only a short story. I wrote about 800 pages, but it ended up being a short story. And if it ever happens to me again, I Will Go Insane.
Richard Bausch
#25. I loved to dance because I was scared to speak. When I was moving, I could feel.
Pina Bausch
#26. Everything must come from the heart, must be lived.
Pina Bausch
#27. I always write stories, and I write poems, too. I just never sell them to anybody, but I write them. They're good, too. They never leave the house. They're too disclosing.
Richard Bausch
#28. Keep everything in context, and try to have each line doing more than one thing - not just giving exposition but also revealing character and history, etc.
Richard Bausch
#29. Write a little bit every day, each day. Visit it, every day - in other words, show up for work.
Richard Bausch
#30. I love teaching. If I made a trillion dollars, I would still teach. It's different every day. You get to meet intelligent people all the time - or at least most of the time.
Richard Bausch
#31. So much of what folks want in the world turns out to be just a thing they say. Words change the way you feel for a small time and that just about goes as far as it can go toward being a true thing.
Robert Bausch
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