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

Memories are less tangible than dreams.

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.

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.

If we seek the real source of the dance, if we go to nature, we find that the dance of the future is the dance of the past, the dance of eternity, and has been and always will be the same... The movement of waves, of winds, of the earth is ever the same lasting harmony.

All my lovers have been geniuses; it's the one thing that I insist.

The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.