Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.

All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture.

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.

I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.

I finally discovered the source of all movement, the unity from which all diversities of movement are born.

Movements are as eloquent as words.