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.

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

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.

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.

There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques; second, those who, by concentrating their minds, lead the body into the rhythm of a desired emotion, expressing a remembered feeling or experience. And finally, there are those who convert the body into a luminous fluidity, surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul.

I was born by the sea, and I have noticed that all the great events of my life have taken place by the sea. My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the waves.

Movements are as eloquent as words.