To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.

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

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled by the profound rhythm of inner emotion. Emotion does not reach the moment of frenzy out of a spurt of action; it broods first, it sleeps like the life in the seed, and it unfolds with a gentle slowness. The Greeks understood the continuing beauty of a movement that mounted, that spread, that ended with a promise of rebirth.

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture.

No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony.

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.