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

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

No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.

My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the wave.

The artist is the only lover; he alone has the pure vision of beauty, and love is the vision of the soul when it is permitted to gaze upon immortal beauty.

Now I am going to reveal to you something which is very pure, a totally white thought. It is always in my heart; it blooms at each of my steps... The Dance is love, it is only love, it alone, and that is enough... I, then, it is amorously that I dance: to poems, to music but now I would like to no longer dance to anything but the rhythm of my soul.

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.