Anna Pavlova Quotes

If I can not dance, I shall die!

Where there is no heart there is no art.

Dancing is my gift and my life... God gave me this gift to bring delight to others. I am haunted by the need to dance. It is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual. It is happiness.

If I can't dance then I'd rather be dead.

What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.

The right to happiness is fundamental.

Whenever I have had a sudden urge to quit dancing, I just remember that moment I had when I was young and remember that dancing is what I want to do.

It is by the steady elimination of everything which is ugly - thoughts and words no less than tangible objects - and by the substitution of things of true and lasting beauty that the whole progress of humanity proceeds.

To strive tirelessly and at all times to reach one's goal - therein lies the secret of success.

It is useless to dabble in beauty. One must be utterly devoted to beauty, with every nerve of the body.

If I could have said it, I shouldn't have had to dance it.

Get my swan costume ready.

To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.

I danced from the moment I could stand.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

A true artist should have no secrets. On the stage, you must be able to transmit every emotion to the spectator.

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

Dance is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual

Play the last measure very softly.

Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.

Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.