"As an expert, I can deal with complex problems. As a mother it is much, much harder."

“Don't treat the dogs like people. Treat the dogs like dogs. They are better than people.”

“Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.”

“Fifth positions, heads, musicality, energy. Not technical things so much-getting your leg higher or doing more turns but things that would set you apart from other dancers. The only way you can be different is to be yourself If you don't find your spirit and reveal it, you just look like every other dancer.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“In Canada, when we speak of water, we're speaking of ourselves. Canadians are known to be unextravagant, and one explanation of this might be that we know that wasted water means a diminished collective soul; polluted waters mean a sickened soul. Water is the basis of our self-identity, and when we dream of canoes and thunderstorms and streams and even snowballs, we're dreaming about our innermost selves.”

“I had this odd sibling rivalry with America.”

“I've taken it from feminist friends, and I've taken it from lefty friends too. But that reassures me. If the right is attacking us and the left is attacking us, that's exactly where we want to be.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

“The big art is our life.”

Source : Mary Caroline Richards (2011). “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person”, p.41, Wesleyan University Press

“Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.”

Source : Max Bill, Eduard Hüttinger, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1978). “Max Bill”