Alonzo King Quotes & Sayings

Dance training can't be separate from life training. Everything that comes into our lives is training. The qualities we admire in great dancing are the same qualities we admire in human beings: honesty, courage, fearlessness, generosity, wisdom, depth, compassion,and humanity. — Alonzo King

So many dancers feel that what they look like is more important than who they are. This is a real danger for dancers who focus for years on appearances and think of themselves as merely a body. The choreographer can't work with them in the realm of ideas. It's a huge problem if they haven't been connecting internally. If they've decided that what's inside is of little value, they can only try to approximate some kind of look. — Alonzo King

To change the world, you must first change yourself. And baby, that's hard enough. — Alonzo King

The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity. — Alonzo King

Art is the inheritance of every individual, it activates evolutionary growth, it is an intellectual virtue, and the fostering principle for all that is made, done, or known. — Alonzo King

Be IN it. Get drunk in the moment. — Alonzo King

What's interesting about you is you. — Alonzo King

The deep art ... That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money ... Like a dope addict would his dope ... Like a lover with their love. — Alonzo King

Everything in the phenomenal universe is straight line and circle. The horizon, our heads, arms, electrons, the oceans, planets and stars. Their principle function is to radiate. The task of the human being is also to radiate. — Alonzo King

The world loves a clone and a good knock-off. It cheats the artist ... In the obsession for technical wizardry, people disappear; and if your voice isn't present in a relationship, you don't matter. — Alonzo King

My intention was to grapple with the metaphysical meaning behind Scheherazade and present that meaning in its essence. Scheherazade is the symbol of the savior. She weaves tales not to save her own life, but to save humanity from its unending retributive response to injury. — Alonzo King

Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average — Alonzo King

Art is a form of intelligence, it can be developed, it's linked to intuition and it's something that all humans have — Alonzo King

The artistic path is a fearless occupation. — Alonzo King