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.

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

Farewell my friends, I go to glory.

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

My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the wave.

The artist is the only lover; he alone has the pure vision of beauty, and love is the vision of the soul when it is permitted to gaze upon immortal beauty.

The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer has forgotten it, who should remember it, as the instrument of [the dance] art is the human body itself.