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.

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

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

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

Get my swan costume ready.

Where there is no heart there is no art.

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