What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print..

All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture..

The dancer will not belong to a nation but to all humanity..

These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever..

Memories are less tangible than dreams..

The Dance - it is the rhythm of all that dies in order to live again; it is the eternal rising of the sun..

Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives..

I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the ….

Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so co….

Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament..

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood..

There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesq….

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them..

Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and champagne. If peop….

Others loved themselves, money, theories, power: Lenin loved his fellow men.... Lenin was God, as Christ was God, because God is Love and Christ and ….

The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche..

I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning to apprehension of….

The whole world is absolutely brought up on lies. We are fed nothing but lies. It begins with lies and half our lives we live with lies..

To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life..

People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life..

No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most..