Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life when every other aspect of civilization fails.

The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, to exhibit their finery...peasants danced to make themselves happy, to escape the routine of their life, and to meet their future wives and husbands.

Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants to astonish us. Or, in some cases, to enrage us. It wants to move us. To touch us. Not accommodate us, make us comfortable.

Among the language of the American Indians, there is no word for 'art'... For Indians, everything is art... therefore needs no name.

We've reached a point where we are not a very empathetic people, and art without empathy is art without an audience. My basic viewpoint is that without art we're alone.

Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation.

For Indians, images are a means of celebrating mystery and not a manner of explaining it

The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as is the folk history told for generations by primal people.

At the root of all the varied manifestations of dancing, lies the common impulse to resort to movement to externalize emotional states which we cannot extemalize by rational means.

In the New Hebrides, any dancer making a mistake was assaulted, wounded, and possibly killed by bowmen posted to keep careful watch for inaccuracies in rituals.

I wanna know what's going on out there. I'd hate to live my entire life inside the walls as an ignorant!

Great leaders never sought followers but follower seek them

You don´t have to let it linger Within the palm of your hand, The tip's already in your finger:All beginning comes to an end.

Israeli independence - what we Arabs call al-Naqba, 'The Catastrophe' - it created Palestinian identity more than anything else.

Delhi is locked in a complete choking smog at the moment - they've had to close schools in one of the world's biggest cities. They have their own reasons for needing to get off fossil fuels fast.

Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers.

There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should be taken more seriously worldwide.

But I don't necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.

Chart positions are for people with manbags who get to work at 11 A.M. because they've been at a digital meeting.

To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.