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

No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most.

The dancer will not belong to a nation but to all humanity.

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

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 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.

I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me.