A dancer, if she is great, can give to the people something that they can carry with them forever. They can never forget it, and it has changed them, though they may never know it.

People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.

Memories are less tangible than dreams.

Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives.

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.

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

Let us first teach little children to breathe, to vibrate, to feel, and to become one with the general harmony and movement of nature. Let us first produce a beautiful human being, a dancing child.