Movements are as eloquent as words.

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

To dance is to live. What I want is a school of life.

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

No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most.

I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning to apprehension of the first realisation of tragic undercurrents; apprehension of the pitiless brutality and crushing progress of life.

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