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 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.

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it

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.

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.

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.