In order to dance well, nothing is so important as the turning outwards of the thigh; and nothing is so natural to men as the contrary position.

The abuse of the best things is always detrimental.

In order that our art may arrive at the degree of the sublime which I demand and hope for, it is imperative for dancers to divide their time and studies between the mind and the body, and that both become the object of their application; but, unfortunately, all is given to the latter and nothing to the former. The legs are rarely guided by the brain, and, since intelligence and taste do not reside in the feet, one often goes astray.

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.

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

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

True art consists in concealing art.