To dance is to live. What I want is a school of life.

For I was never able to understand, then or later on, why, if one wanted to do a thing, one should not do it. For I have never waited to do as I wished. This has frequently brought me to disaster and calamity, but at least I have had the the satisfaction of getting my own way.

The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art which is not religious is not art, it is mere merchandise

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

My art is just an effort to express the truth of my being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long years to find even one absolutely true movement.

If we seek the real source of the dance, if we go to nature, we find that the dance of the future is the dance of the past, the dance of eternity, and has been and always will be the same... The movement of waves, of winds, of the earth is ever the same lasting harmony.

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.