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.

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

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

What I am interested in doing is finding and expressing a new form of life

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

I would rather live in Russia on black bread and vodka than in the United States at the best hotels. America knows nothing of food, love or art.

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