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

See the music, hear the dance.

It's like the time capsule with everything in it. Or like the seed that when you plant it, becomes the enormous tree with leaves and fruit. Everybody was in that little seed, and so everything can open. The tree of dance is like that. It just takes a long, long time to blossom.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

Ballet will speak for itself. About itself.

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.

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