All my lovers have been geniuses; it's the one thing that I insist.

I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me.

It is the mission of all art to express the highest and most beautiful ideals of man.

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.

To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art.

The butcher with his bloody apron incites bloodshed, murder. Why not? From cutting the throat of a young calf to cutting the throats of our brothers and sisters is but a step. While we ourselves are living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal conditions on the earth?

If I could say it, I would not have to dance it.