It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.

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.

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

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

Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.

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

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