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.

Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery - what it all means, the way the little bone near the ankle relates itself to the floor for a perfect stance, a perfect plie.

Misery is a communicable disease.

It's not my job to look beautiful. It's my job to look interesting.

The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual - as we think so will we act.

I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore. I look at young dancers, and I am envious, more aware of what glories the body contains. But sensitivity is not made dull by age.