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

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled by the profound rhythm of inner emotion. Emotion does not reach the moment of frenzy out of a spurt of action; it broods first, it sleeps like the life in the seed, and it unfolds with a gentle slowness. The Greeks understood the continuing beauty of a movement that mounted, that spread, that ended with a promise of rebirth.

To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art.

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

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

To dance is to live. What I want is a school of life.