The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible

Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.

If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians.

Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.

great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions. Tolstoi's scripts are almost indecipherable. Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession. But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage. What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.