If I could explain, I wouldn't need to dance!

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.

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

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

I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is that it showed the brutal incomprehension of children.

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

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.