The Dance - it is the rhythm of all that dies in order to live again; it is the eternal rising of the sun.

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

I do not teach children, I give them joy.

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled by the profound rhythm of inner emotion. Emotion does not reach the moment of frenzy out of a spurt of action; it broods first, it sleeps like the life in the seed, and it unfolds with a gentle slowness. The Greeks understood the continuing beauty of a movement that mounted, that spread, that ended with a promise of rebirth.