These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.

I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.

The butcher with his bloody apron incites bloodshed, murder. Why not? From cutting the throat of a young calf to cutting the throats of our brothers and sisters is but a step. While we ourselves are living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal conditions on the earth?

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.

A dancer, if she is great, can give to the people something that they can carry with them forever. They can never forget it, and it has changed them, though they may never know it.

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