I would rather live in Russia on black bread and vodka than in the United States at the best hotels. America knows nothing of food, love or art.

Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.

Master technique, so that technique NEVER prevents you from dancing.

To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art.

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.

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.

The Dance - it is the rhythm of all that dies in order to live again; it is the eternal rising of the sun.