Get my swan costume ready.
If I can't dance then I'd rather be dead.
A true artist should have no secrets. On the stage, you must be able to transmit every emotion to the spectator.
It is useless to dabble in beauty. One must be utterly devoted to beauty, with every nerve of the body.
Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.
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.