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.

Anybody can and should dance... It's good for the body and the spirit.

Now I am going to reveal to you something which is very pure, a totally white thought. It is always in my heart; it blooms at each of my steps... The Dance is love, it is only love, it alone, and that is enough... I, then, it is amorously that I dance: to poems, to music but now I would like to no longer dance to anything but the rhythm of my soul.

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.

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.

Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the Dionysian ecstasy which carries away all.

There are joys so complete, so all perfect, that one should not survive them.