Anybody can and should dance... It's good for the body and the spirit.

I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.

There are joys so complete, so all perfect, that one should not survive them.

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.

I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.

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

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.