First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.
I cannot move, I cannot even want to move, unless I hear the music first.
Ballet is important and significant - yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure.
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell. We can't dance synonyms.
God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.