I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

What I do must be done in the sunlight of awareness.

To me, this acquirement of nervous, physical, and emotional concentration is the one element possessed to the highest degree by the truly great dancers of the world. Its acquirement is the result of discipline, of energy in the deep sense. That is why there are so few great dancers.

The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.