The body is a sacred garment.

There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep.

All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

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

Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of the land is to be found in its movement. It is to be felt as a dramatic force of energy and vitality. We move; we do not stand still. We have not yet arrived at the stock-taking stage.

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.