To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art.

Memories are less tangible than dreams.

Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives.

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

The wind? I am the wind. The sea and the moon? I am the sea and the moon. Tears, pain, love, bird-flights? I am all of them. I dance what I am. Sin, prayer, flight, the light that never was on land or sea? I dance what I am.

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.

I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning to apprehension of the first realisation of tragic undercurrents; apprehension of the pitiless brutality and crushing progress of life.