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.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium, and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.

Nothing is more revealing than movement.

My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

I use the words gods and goddesses principally, I think, to mean beautiful bodies - bodies that are absolute instruments. And I believe in discipline, I believe in a very definite technique.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.