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

I am seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body's movement.

I wonder how many parents realize that by the so-called education they are giving their children, they are only driving them into the commonplace, and depriving them of any chance of doing anything beautiful or original.

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

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

I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning to apprehension of the first realisation of tragic undercurrents; apprehension of the pitiless brutality and crushing progress of life.

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