Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.

I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.

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.

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

Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.

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.

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.