At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your art in its infancy; examine everything relative to the development of talents; be original; form a style for yourselves based on your private studies; if you must copy, imitate nature, it is a noble model and never misleads those who follow it.

This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree.

True art consists in concealing art.

Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.

It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight.

A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself.

It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things only is to degenerate into mediocrity and obscurity.