God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.
Source: In NY Times, 16 Dec 1963.
-- George Balanchine, (Jan 22 1904-1983), Russian choreographer; He was the most influential choreographer of classical ballet in U.S. in the 20th C.; his works of cool neoclassicism include The Nutcracker, 1954.