My motto - sans limites.

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

I would rather live in Russia on black bread and vodka than in the United States at the best hotels. America knows nothing of food, love or art.

To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art.

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

Eleonora Duse said, "Tell me about Deirdre and Patrick," and made me repeat to her all their little sayings and ways, and show her their photos, which she kissed and cried over. She never said "Cease to grieve", but she grieved with me, and, for the first time since their death, I felt I was not alone.

Anybody can and should dance... It's good for the body and the spirit.