The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not religious is not art, it is mere merchandise

If we seek the real source of the dance, if we go to nature, we find that the dance of the future is the dance of the past, the dance of eternity, and has been and always will be the same... The movement of waves, of winds, of the earth is ever the same lasting harmony.

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

I finally discovered the source of all movement, the unity from which all diversities of movement are born.

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

America knows nothing of food, love, or art.

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.