Many women to whom I have preached the doctrine of freedom have weakly replied, 'But who is to support the children?' It seems to me that if the marr….

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter..

The movement of the waves, of winds, of the earth is ever in the same lasting harmony. We do not stand on the beach and inquire of the ocean what was….

Movements are as eloquent as words..

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you..

I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence..

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled by the profound rhy….

The wind? I am the wind. The sea and the moon? I am the sea and the moon. Tears, pain, love, bird-flights? I am all of them. I dance what I am. Sin, ….

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of her soul...This is the truly creative dancer, natural but not imitative, speaking in moveme….

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world..

It is unheard-of, uncivilized barbarism that any woman should still be forced to bear such monstrous torture. It should be remedied. It should be sto….

To dance is to live. What I want is a school of life..

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved..

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage..

One might say that the American trend of education is to reduce the senses almost to nil..

The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer has forgotten it, who sh….

When I was sixteen, I danced before an audience without music. At the end someone suddenly cried 'its Death and the Maiden'. But that was not my inte….

I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets..

Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual..

I do not teach children, I give them joy..

Let us first teach little children to breathe, to vibrate, to feel, and to become one with the general harmony and movement of nature. Let us first p….