God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?

You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.

You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone.

The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs.

Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing.

Classical ballet will never die.

Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.