Quotes About Merce Cunningham

#1. We know how Merce Cunningham works and how he thinks - we've been told, over and over again, by him and by others.

Robert Gottlieb

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

Merce Cunningham

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

Merce Cunningham

#4. If people knew how good God is, they would love Him and live for Him. That in turn would solve all the problems of the world.

Paul Silway

#5. Falling is one of the ways of moving.

Merce Cunningham

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

Merce Cunningham

#7. The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour and a half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a devotion that allows the classroom discipline to become moments of dancing too ...

Merce Cunningham

#8. A man with an excruciatingly painful condition wrote me and told me that his doctor said that the only cure for what he has is death, and he might want to consider suicide. What do you say to him? I doubt the, "Hey let's go get some coffee and talk" thing is going to be at all helpful.

Henry Rollins

#9. Christianity has confused catching mice with the real work of the Kingdom, which is more like hunting lions.

Leslie Ludy

#10. I'm not expressing anything. I'm presenting people moving.

Merce Cunningham

#11. So many people aren't ready for Hollywood - professionally or practically.

John Ratzenberger

#12. So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again.

Ken Thompson

#13. Dancing is a spiritual exercise in a physical form.

Merce Cunningham

#14. 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.

Merce Cunningham

#15. The only way to do it is to do it.

Merce Cunningham

#16. There are no fixed points in space,

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#17. The peace you seek is there, it's there between all the traffic in your mind, stop and rest for peace will find you if you let it.

Michael Dolan

#18. I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

Ayn Rand

#19. Light or luminosity is created by the way elements are juxtaposed. They become reflective and a radiance comes from putting different things together.

Merce Cunningham

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

Merce Cunningham