The defect in wisdom and taste which exists among the majority of dancers is due to the bad education which they generally receive. They apply themse….

If our ballets be feeble, monotonous and dull, if they be devoid of ideas, meaning, expression and character, it is less the fault of the art than th….

Dancing and ballets would undoubtedly take on a new lease on life, if the customs established by a spirit of fear and jealousy did not in some way cl….

I will make an average man into an average dancer, provided he be passably well made. I will teach him how to move his arms and legs, to turn his hea….

In order that our art may arrive at the degree of the sublime which I demand and hope for, it is imperative for dancers to divide their time and stud….

A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself..

At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your art in its infancy; ….

True art consists in concealing art..

It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight..

It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things only is to degenerate ….

No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain. Again, the mo….

I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If their powers of emotion be we….

Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career..

This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree..

The abuse of the best things is always detrimental..

I should never conclude were I to speak to you of all the misfortunes which have their origin in the faulty carriage of the body. All these defects, ….

I know that applause is food for the arts, but it ceases to be wholesome if administered indiscriminately; and the nutrition is so rich that, far fro….

In order to dance well, nothing is so important as the turning outwards of the thigh; and nothing is so natural to men as the contrary position..

The defects born of habit are innumerable. I see every child occupied in some way in disarranging and disfiguring his physique; some displace the ank….

When the music and dance create with accord...their magic captivates both the heart and the mind..