Where there is no heart there is no art.
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.
Play the last measure very softly.
If I could have said it, I shouldn't have had to dance it.
Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.
I danced from the moment I could stand.