Get my swan costume ready.
Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.
Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.
Where there is no heart there is no art.
If I could have said it, I shouldn't have had to dance it.
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.