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

My art is just an effort to express the truth of my being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long years to find even one absolutely true movement.

The movement of the waves, of winds, of the earth is ever in the same lasting harmony. We do not stand on the beach and inquire of the ocean what was its movement of the past and what will be its movement of the future. We realize that the movement peculiar to its nature is eternal to its nature. The dancer of the future will be one whose body and soul have grown so harmoniously together that the natural language of that soul will have become the movement of the body.

I intend to work for this dance of the future. I do not know whether I have the necessary qualities; I may have neither genius nor talent nor temperament. But I know that I have a Will; and will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.

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

One might say that the American trend of education is to reduce the senses almost to nil.

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.