The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and champagne. If people ask me when I began to dance, I reply 'In my mother's womb, probably as a result of the oysters and Champagne.'

I am seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body's movement.

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

Movements are as eloquent as words.

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.

Memories are less tangible than dreams.