Your eyes is camera and your brain is a file cabinet.

One is born to be a great dancer.

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

Ballet is important and significant - yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure.

One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil. One may be able to acquire a certain technical facility, but no one can ever 'acquire an exceptional talent.' I have never prided myself on having an unusually gifted pupil. A Pavlova is no one's pupil but God's.

Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a plot.

I could never make a ballet by wrinkling my brow and concentrating. If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how will you ever get it finished?