The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of her soul...This is the truly creative dancer, natural but not imitative, speaking in movement out of herself and out of something greater than all selves.

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

Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.

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

My art is just an effort to express the truth of my being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long years to find even one absolutely true movement.

The butcher with his bloody apron incites bloodshed, murder. Why not? From cutting the throat of a young calf to cutting the throats of our brothers and sisters is but a step. While we ourselves are living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal conditions on the earth?

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