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

The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer has forgotten it, who should remember it, as the instrument of [the dance] art is the human body itself.

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture.

Movements are as eloquent as words.

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

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