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

Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.

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.

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

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

My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the wave.

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.