When I was sixteen, I danced before an audience without music. At the end someone suddenly cried 'its Death and the Maiden'. But that was not my intention; I was only endeavoring to express my first knowledge of the underlying tragedy in all seemingly joyous manifestation. The dance according with my comprehension, should have been called 'Life and the Maiden'.

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.

I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.

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

Movements are as eloquent as words.