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

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years

I was born by the sea, and I have noticed that all the great events of my life have taken place by the sea. My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the waves.

The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.

The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not religious is not art, it is mere merchandise

I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me.