Quotes About Merce

#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. Merce is my favorite artist in any field,

Jasper Johns

#3. If you continue to entertain "boys", don't be upset when you can't find a "man".

Stephan Labossiere

#4. I understand now that a Trojan of literary achievement writes out of passion, out of necessity.

Merce Cardus

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

Merce Cunningham

#6. Action is prayer in motion.

Charles F. Glassman

#7. No matter where we come from, a little sugar is what everybody demands in life, what everybody needs in life. It's perhaps the main ingredient that keeps us alive.

Merce Cardus

#8. Beauty just implies truth.

Merce Cardus

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

Merce Cunningham

#10. The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth of heart toward the cold, philanthropy toward the misanthropic.

Jean Paul

#11. Art is always an energy exchange.

Erica Jong

#12. Whoever makes you laugh hard, he will make you cry madly.

Merce Cardus

#13. I'm supposed to talk some sense into you," she told me. "But what I really want to say is congratulations. You did the right thing." "The police don't think so." "Typical," she clucked. "Getting hung up on the numbers on your birth certificate when you probably saved a life." "They made

Gordon Korman

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

Merce Cunningham

#15. Their bonding over birds went way beyond the way John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev bonded over Pushinka, a little dog that the Soviet leader sent to the White House.

Frans De Waal

#16. 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

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

Merce Cunningham

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

Merce Cunningham

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

Merce Cunningham

#20. There are no fixed points in space,

Merce Cunningham

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

Merce Cunningham

#22. 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

#23. HELEN HAYES: "Which part of The Divine Comedy do you like the most, Tiziano?"
TIZIANO CONTI: "The fifth Canto."
HELEN HAYES: "The Hell, huh?"
TIZIANO CONTI: "L'inferno depicts the truth.

Merce Cardus

#24. I'm confident in some of the things that I wear, regardless of what other people are wearing.

Russell Westbrook

#25. The great passions had never been moved by a perfect body but by an evolved mind.

Merce Cardus

#26. I was convinced that being ripped in two by him would be the best pleasure I'd ever known.

Christina Lauren

#27. Call me a bad private eye, but I came to the conclusion that nobody is happy with what they've got. You have a healthy relationship, then, you look for a spicy one. You have an unhealthy relationship, your struggle is to find a peaceful one.

Merce Cardus

#28. [Showing the apartment to Tiziano ]
MARLEEN WALKER: "Let me alert you that animals are banned in this building."
TIZIANO CONTI: "Am I breaking the law right now?

Merce Cardus

#29. His hand trailed down the side of her face, brushing back spiraling tendrils of hair. Come, shei'tani, dance the skiles with your mate.

C.L. Wilson

#30. Inevitably, every part an actor plays contains some of himself.

David Suchet

#31. The first movie I had a featured role in was Parting Glances.

Steve Buscemi

#32. To love is to risk.

Merce Cardus

#33. You cannot write to save your soul. given up it drifts and does the singing.

Marie Luise Kaschnitz

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

Merce Cunningham

#35. My toughest opponent? Scholes of Manchester. He is the complete midfielder.

Zinedine Zidane

#36. I sold my house this week. I got a pretty good price for it, but it made my landlord mad as hell

Garry Shandling

#37. 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