The Dance is an art because it demands vocation, knowledge, and ability.

The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire

The Dance is an art because it demands vocation, knowledge, and ability.

It is not so much upon the number of exercises, as the care with which they are done, that progreses and skill depend.

The beautiful always retains the freshness of novelty, while the astonishing soon grow tiresome.

It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not only in plastic but also in lyrical respect.

The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire is not dependent upon taste or pleasure, but is founded on the immutable laws of Nature.