I intend to work for this dance of the future. I do not know whether I have the necessary qualities; I may have neither genius nor talent nor temperament. But I know that I have a Will; and will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.

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

I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years

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

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

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.

I do not teach children, I give them joy.